CONTENTS
George Chetwynd Griffith
PROLOGUE
—A RACE FOR A WOMAN
I.
A MOMENTOUS EXPERIMENT
II.
NORAH'S GOOD-BYE
III.
SEEN UNDER THE MOON
IV.
THE SHADOW OF THE TERROR
V.
A GLIMPSE OF THE DOOM
VI.
THE NOTE OF WAR
VII.
CAUGHT!
VIII.
FIRST BLOOD
IX.
THE "FLYING FISH" APPEARS
X.
FIRST BLOWS FROM THE AIR
XI.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE TWO SQUADRONS
XII.
HOW LONDON TOOK THE NEWS
XIII.
A CRIME AND A MISTAKE
XIV.
THE EVE OF BATTLE
XV.
THE STRIFE OF GIANTS
XVI.
HOW THE FRENCH LANDED AT PORTSMOUTH
XVII.
AWAY FROM THE WARPATH
XVIII.
A GLIMPSE OF THE PERIL
XIX.
A CHANGE OF SCENE
XX.
THE NIGHT OF TERROR BEGINS—
XXI.
—AND ENDS
XXII.
DISASTER
XXIII.
THE OTHER CAMPAIGN BEGINS
XXIV.
TOM BOWCOCK—PITMAN
XXV.
PREPARING FOR ACTION
XXVI.
THE FIRST BOMBARDMENT OF LONDON
XXVII.
LENNARD'S ULTIMATUM
XXVIII.
CONCERNING ASTRONOMY AND OYSTERS
XXIX.
THE LION WAKES
XXX.
MR PARMENTER SAYS
XXXI.
JOHN CASTELLAN'S THREAT
XXXII.
A VIGIL IN THE NIGHT
XXXIII.
MR PARMENTER RETURNS
XXXIV.
THE "AURIOLE"
XXXV.
THE "AURIOLE" HOISTS THE WHITE ENSIGN
XXXVI.
A PARLEY AT ALDERSHOT
XXXVII.
THE VERDICT OF SCIENCE
XXXVIII.
WAITING FOR DOOM
XXXIX.
THE LAST FIGHT
EPILOGUE
—"AND ON EARTH, PEACE!"
THE WORLD PERIL OF 1910
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