CHAPTER XXII

THE END OF THE _CHEN SU_ It seemed a ludicrous proceeding to clear deck for action--a modern light cruiser preparing to fight an obsolete little torpedo-boat. On the one hand was the _Hermione_, armed with 6-inch guns and torpedo-tubes and manned by a highly-trained crew of British seamen. On the other the _Chen Su_, with two 3-pounder quick-firers of antiquated pattern, and a pair of torpedo-tubes which for the last fifteen years had never been occupied by a "tin-fish." But Captain Purvis was taking no unnecessa…