Dave Darrin on the Asiatic Station. Or, Winning Lieutenants' Commissions on the Admiral's Flagship

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Hancock Harrie Irving. Dave Darrin on the Asiatic Station. Or, Winning Lieutenants' Commissions on the Admiral's Flagship

CHAPTER I – TWO STRANGERS OF MANILA

CHAPTER II – THE TRAGEDY OF THE BAY

CHAPTER III – MR. PEMBROKE BREAKS IN

CHAPTER IV – THE LANDING PARTY AT NU-PING

CHAPTER V – SIN FOO HAS HIS DOUBTS

CHAPTER VI – HECKLING HIS EXCELLENCY

CHAPTER VII – BELLE HAS SOME “TIPS”

CHAPTER VIII – THE SWARM OF NIGHT FURIES

CHAPTER IX – THE TRAITOR OF THE YAMEN

CHAPTER X – THE CLIMAX OF THE ATTACK

CHAPTER XI – A SURPRISE PARTY FOR THE GOVERNOR

CHAPTER XII – RISKING ALL ON ONE THROW

CHAPTER XIII – ALL ABOUT A CERTAIN BAD MAN

CHAPTER XIV – DAVE HEARS SOME EYE-OPENERS

CHAPTER XV – WHEN THE FLAGSHIP WAS SIGHTED

CHAPTER XVI – THE MEDALLION MYSTERY

CHAPTER XVII – DAVE FACES THE HUMAN TEMPEST

CHAPTER XVIII – MR. KATURA DOES SOME ASTOUNDING

CHAPTER XIX – DAN FIRES A WARM SHOT

CHAPTER XX – CONCLUSION

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“Why did you turn the Englishman down so hard?” asked Danny Grin, as he and Dave sat at the stern of the launch that sped down the river and then out to the naval anchorage in the bay.

“I didn’t,” Darrin replied.

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Unless the two small craft changed their courses speedily Darrin knew that he would have to hail them and warn them off. In these piping times of peace in the Philippines, there was nothing very suspicious in two boats coming close to a war vessel at anchor. Still, the two canoes could not be permitted to come up alongside without the occupants first giving an account of themselves.

“It looks like a race,” Dave told himself, as he continued to watch intently. “Jove, I am tempted to believe that the second canoe is trying to overtake the leader. What can it – ”

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