True Blue Weekly: Clif Faraday at Cardenas

This issue of *True Blue* (Street & Smith, August 6, 1898) contains "Chief Faraday at Cardenas; Or, The Shot That Did Most Good" by Ensign Clarke Beech, U.S.N., a naval adventure serial set during the Spanish-American War. Naval Cadet Clif Faraday serves aboard the gunboat *Uncas* under Lieutenant Raymond. The vessel joins the cruiser *Nashville* on a dangerous mission to cut Spanish submarine cables at Cardenas, Cuba, a heavily fortified harbor. Armed with grappling irons, the ships approach under fire from Spanish batteries while a Cuban pilot guides them to three cables marked on their chart. As they enter the harbor, Clif spots a rowboat carrying Spanish sailors and a civilian—whom he recognizes as Ignacio, a spy who attempted to assassinate Admiral Sampson and imprisoned Clif in Morro Castle. Abandoning the cable-cutting mission, Lieutenant Raymond pursues the rowboat while Spanish guns bombard the *Uncas*. Clif mans the bow gun, determined to capture or eliminate the spy.