hums should
be in the front ranks of pursuit, for you will know him the instant you
lay eyes on him."

"You want me to take my friends ashore, then, Major, and lay the
'Spitfire' up?"

"By no means," answered Major Woodruff, decisively. "In reality
operations will be suspended at this point until we have run Millard
down. Yet we must have the appearance of being as busy as ever. The
submarine will hover about, and this tug will be busy, apparently, in
laying the bay with mines. You have a fourth man on your boat?"

"Yes, sir; Williamson, the machinist."

"Can he run the engines all right?"

"As well as any of us, Major."

"Then I will put aboard a man who can steer. Thus the 'Spitfire' will
be seen moving about the bay, and apparently at work. I'll also put
aboard a guard of a sergeant and three or four soldiers of the engineer
corps, and they'll guard that boat from harm with their lives. That
will leave all three of you young officers of the 'Spitfire' free for
shore duty."

"It will, Major. And now, sir, what is that shore duty to be?"

"Simply to locate Millard. He may be at one of the hotels in Radford."

Radford was the busy, important little port four miles farther up the
bay.

"He's likely to be somewhere in Radford, anyway," nodded young Benson.

"Wherever the fellow is found, he must be seized at once," continued
Major Woodruff, warmly. "Any policeman will seize him on your request.
I will give each of you three a written statement that you have been
asked to locate Millard and have him arrested. If you run across
Millard anywhere, turn him over to a policeman, then show my written
authorization. On that the police authorities will hold the scoundrel
and notify the military authorities. Then, once we have Millard out at
Fort Craven, securely under lock and key, by authority from Washington,
we will make every effort under the sun to locate his charts and
notebooks."

"Why, the work you want us to do is going to be easy enough," murmured
Captain Jack.

"It is going to be easy, if you succeed in finding the fellow, and in
turning him over to a policeman," replied Major Woodruff. "And, by the
way, I have just remembered that Lieutenant Ridder, of the engineer
corps, reported last night from a former station in the West. No one
around here will know him. Good enough! I'll have Ridder get into
citizen's clothes and go about with you three. He can give you
instructions on any poin