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Lawrence Perry. Dan Merrithew
Dan Merrithew
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Tongues of flame reached hungrily for them, licking above Dan's red-gold hair, but never touching the girl … … … Frontispiece
DAN MERRITHEW
CHAPTER I
THE GIRL ON THE "VEILED LADYE"
CHAPTER II
DAN'S SEARCH FOR THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
CHAPTER III
A FIGHT IN THE DARK
CHAPTER IV
DAN STAKES HIS LIFE, AND WINS
CHAPTER V
THE LOSS OF THE "FLEDGLING"
[Illustration: "Oh, father," broke in the girl, "tell him it was noble!"]
CHAPTER VI
THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR
CHAPTER VII
DAN IS COMMANDED TO A PARTY
CHAPTER VIII
WITS VERSUS MACHINE GUNS
CHAPTER IX
AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
[Illustration: In the flash of an eye, Dan was making for the assassin.]
CHAPTER X
THE WRAITH IN THE MOONLIGHT
CHAPTER XI
THE BURNING OF THE "TAMPICO"
CHAPTER XII
ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
[Illustration: Opposite, smiling at him, as though they had breakfasted together for years, was the radiant girl.]
CHAPTER XIII
NIGHT ON THE DERELICT
CHAPTER XIV
DAN AND VIRGINIA
CHAPTER XV
CONCLUSION
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Lawrence Perry
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Dan raised his head angrily and started to utter a sneering reply, when the first good swell caught the boat—a great lazy, greasy fellow. The Quinn went up and then down, and after her shot the rowboat, like a young colt frisking at the end of her tether, then careening down the incline on her side as though to ram the stern of the tug ahead, which, fortunately, was climbing another hill.
What the rowboat had been through before was child's play to this, and Dan's face grew very stern. Reaching down with one hand, he seized the other oar and shoved it along to Captain Barney. "Put that down on the port side. Hang on for your life and keep her steady!" he cried.
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