CHAPTER I--The Admiral's Sixpence CHAPTER II--In Defiance of Authority CHAPTER III--The World Plot CHAPTER IV--Shadowed CHAPTER V--Dropping the Pilot CHAPTER VI--Captain Crouch CHAPTER VII--In the Hold CHAPTER VIII--A False Witness CHAPTER IX--The "Dresden" CHAPTER X--The Mysterious Message CHAPTER XI--The Middle Watch CHAPTER XII--The U93 CHAPTER XIII--To the Boats! CHAPTER XIV--The Doomed Ship CHAPTER XV--The Penitence of Captain Crouch CHAPTER XVI--At the "Goat and Compasses" CHAPTER XVII--Number 758 CHAPTER XVIII--"Mr. Russell" CHAPTER XIX--A Clue CHAPTER XX--Commander Fells CHAPTER XXI--On Board a White Star Liner CHAPTER XXII--By the Dogger Bank CHAPTER XXIII--The Loss of the "Kitty McQuaire" CHAPTER XXIV--The Tables Turned CHAPTER XXV--VÆ Victis CHAPTER XXVI--The Titans CHAPTER XXVII--The Battle of the Dogger Bank CHAPTER XXVIII--The Wounded "Lion" CHAPTER XXIX--Conclusion THE "MONDAVIA" SWUNG IN UPON HER VICTIM . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece THE VERY FIRST PROJECTILE BURST DIRECTLY OVER THE BRIDGE Title-page THE BOY SPRANG ASIDE TOO LATE. HE WAS SEIZED ROUGHLY BY THE THROAT THE "HARLECH" HAD TAKEN A MARKED LIST TO PORT--NO ONE COULD LIVE UPON THE DECK LIKE AN EVIL EYE IN THE NIGHT THERE APPEARED AN ANSWERING LIGHT "YOU'RE HEADING THE WRONG WAY, MAN! PUT ABOUT AND STAND CLEAR WHILE THE TROUBLE'S ON" CROUCH SEIZED RUSSELL BY HIS LONG, FLOWING BEARD, WHICH HE TORE BODILY FROM THE OLD MAN'S WRINKLED FACE AS THEY SANK OUT OF THE RED GLARE OF A WINTER'S SUNSET THERE APPEARED THE THREATENING FORM OF THE U93 In the following story fact is blended with fiction. The account of the Battle of the North Sea, in which the "BlÜcher" was sunk, is as historically accurate as is possible with the details at present available. On the other hand, it would be well for the reader to know that the description of the pursuit of the "Dresden" in mid-Atlantic is wholly fictitious. The incident is introduced "for my story's sake," as Robert Louis Stevenson used to say, and also because it is illustrative of the character of the "Sea Affair" in the earlier days of the war. |
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