+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: "HERE GRIT, OLD FELLOW, GIVE IT TO ME! THAT'S A GOOD DOG!" _Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht._ _Frontispiece_--(_Page 201._)] DICK HAMILTON'S STEAM YACHT OR A YOUNG MILLIONAIRE AND THE KIDNAPPERS BY HOWARD R. GARIS AUTHOR OF "DICK HAMILTON'S FORTUNE," "DICK HAMILTON'S CADET DAYS," "FROM OFFICE BOY TO REPORTER," "LARRY DEXTER, REPORTER," "LARRY DEXTER'S GREAT SEARCH," ETC. _ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS BOOKS FOR BOYS BY HOWARD R. GARIS THE DICK HAMILTON SERIES DICK HAMILTON'S FORTUNE Or The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son. DICK HAMILTON'S CADET DAYS Or The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son DICK HAMILTON'S STEAM YACHT Or A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers DICK HAMILTON'S FOOTBALL TEAM Or A Young Millionaire on the Gridiron (Other volumes in preparation) _12mo. Cloth. Illustrated._ THE YOUNG REPORTER SERIES FROM OFFICE BOY TO REPORTER Or The First Step in Journalism LARRY DEXTER, THE YOUNG REPORTER Or Strange Adventures in a Great City LARRY DEXTER'S GREAT SEARCH Or The Hunt for a Missing Millionaire LARRY DEXTER AND THE BANK MYSTERY Or A Young Reporter in Wall Street LARRY DEXTER AND THE STOLEN BOY Or A Young Reporter on the Lakes _12mo. Cloth. Illustrated._ GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright, 1911, by GROSSET & DUNLAP _Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht_ PREFACE MY DEAR BOYS: Perhaps some of you, at one time or another, have had a desire to be cast away on an island in the middle of the ocean, there to have all sorts of adventures, to build a boat, and sail away, maybe; or, at any rate, to have some experience on the great sea. Something like this fell to the lot of Dick Hamilton, though he was not exactly looking for it, and it is my privilege to give you in this, the third volume of the "Dick Hamilton Series," an account of what happened to the young millionaire when he had purchased a steam yacht, and started out on a cruise with some of his friends. Dick was marooned on a small island, but, far from that proving a delightful experience, he was very glad to leave, even though it was on a raft, which he and his companions constructed.