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Title: In Clive's Command
A Story of the Fight for India

Author: Herbert Strang

Release Date: July 29, 2005 [eBook #16382]

Language: English

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IN CLIVE'S COMMAND

A Story of the Fight for India

by

HERBERT STRANG

Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: In which the Court Leet of Market Drayton entertains
Colonel Robert Clive; and our hero makes an acquaintance.
Chapter 2: In which our hero overhears a conversation; and, meeting
with the unexpected, is none the less surprised and offended.
Chapter 3: In which Mr. Marmaduke Diggle talks of the Golden East; and
our hero interrupts an interview, and dreams dreams.
Chapter 4: In which blows are exchanged; and our hero, setting forth
upon his travels, scents an adventure.
Chapter 5: In which Job Grinsell explains; and three visitors come by
night to the Four Alls.
Chapter 6: In which the reader becomes acquainted with William Bulger and
other sailor men; and our hero as a squire of dames acquits
himself with credit.
Chapter 7: In which Colonel Clive suffers an unrecorded defeat; and
our hero finds food for reflection.
Chapter 8: In which several weeks are supposed to elapse; and our hero
is discovered in the Doldrums.
Chapter 9: In which the Good Intent makes a running fight: Mr. Toley
makes a suggestion.
Chapter 10: In which our hero arrives in the Golden East, and Mr.
Diggle presents him to a native prince.
Chapter 11: In which the Babu tells the story of King Vikramaditya; and the
discerning reader may find more than appears on the surface.
Chapter 12: In which our hero is offered freedom at the price of honor;
and Mr. Diggle finds that others can quote Latin on occasion.
Chapter 13: In which Mr. Diggle illustrates his argument; and there
are strange doings in Gheria harbor.
Ch