[#] The written statement of specific acts for which the accused person is being tried. Richard was standing outside the ward-room door when Chief Master-at-Arms Fitch brought the two prisoners aft for their trial. "I’ll get you for this, you fresh Leatherneck, and I give you fair warning to keep out of my way when I get out of the brig," muttered Choiniski, glaring malignantly at the drummer. "Shut up and don’t talk so much or I’ll see that you get hung," snapped Fitch on hearing the remark. "After you two birds get out of your cage you’d better be looking round for friends, not enemies, I’m thinking." And two days after the trial with the entire crew of the _Denver_ mustered aft on the quarter-deck, the sentences were published to the two offenders. "Whew! You’ll never catch me smuggling any liquor on a man-o’-war," said Dick to his friend, Corporal Dorlan, as they sat talking in the marines’ compartment soon after the crew had been dismissed. "No, it’s bad business no matter how ye bring it on board, inside or outside," said Mike, dolefully, "and it’s meself who should know, bad ’cess to the stuff." "Have those two men got to stay in those hot little cells up forward with nothing but bread and water to eat for thirty days, and lose three months’ pay, and in addition, do three months’ extra police duties with no liberty meanwhile?" "Not quite that bad, me lad; they’ll be after gittin’ a full ration on every fifth day, so as to show them what they’re missin’ in the way of good chow,[#] and accordin’ to my way of thinkin’ it will do them both a world of good. Until they came to this packet ’twas the happy ship; but the likes of them are always makin’ trouble." [#] A Chinese term generally used by men in the service for food. "Did you hear that we are going to Guantanamo Bay before the fleet arrives here, Mike?" questioned Richard. "Well, it won’t be the first time Michael Dorlan has been in that place, and well I remember the time we showed the Spaniards they couldn’t fool with Uncle Sam’s Marines and git away with it." "Were you in a fight there during the Spanish War, Corporal?" * * * * * * * * * [Illustration: The Sampson Medal] THE SAMPSON MEDAL The medal commemorating the U.S. Naval Campaign in the West Indies, during the war of 1898. The ribbon has a blue center with red on either side. Commonly called The Sampson Medal after the Commander-in-Chief--William Sampson, U.S.N. A similar medal for Admiral Dewey’s victory in Manila Bay was awarded, suspended from a ribbon with broader band of blue in center and yellow on either side. * * * * * * * * *