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Title: Dan Merrithew

Author: Lawrence Perry

Illustrator: J. V. McFall

Release Date: September 24, 2005 [EBook #16742]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Tongues of flame reached hungrily for them, licking
above Dan's red-gold hair, but never touching the girl.]

Dan Merrithew

By Lawrence Perry

Author of "From the Depths of Things," "Two Tramps," "The Bounder,"
"The Sacrifice," etc.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS

BY J. V. McFALL

A. L. BURT COMPANY

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT

By A. C. McClurg & Co.

A.D. 1910

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England

Published, March 12, 1910

Second edition, March 19, 1910

_Thanks are due Mr. Arthur W. Little, president of the Pearson
Publishing Company, for permission to use in this novel several
incidents in the life of Dan Merrithew which originally appeared in
"Pearson's Magazine."_

TO

LARRY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
TOC
I. THE GIRL ON THE "VEILED LADYE"
II. DAN'S SEARCH FOR THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
III. A FIGHT IN THE DARK
IV. DAN STAKES HIS LIFE, AND WINS
V. THE LOSS OF THE "FLEDGLING"
VI. THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR
VII. DAN IS COMMANDED TO A PARTY
VIII. WITS VERSUS MACHINE GUNS
IX. AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
X. THE WRAITH IN THE MOONLIGHT
XI. THE BURNING OF THE "TAMPICO"
XII. ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
XIII. NIGHT ON THE DERELICT
XIV. DAN AND VIRGINIA
XV. CONCLUSION

ILLUSTRATIONS

Tongues of flame reached hungrily for them, licking above Dan's
red-gold hair, but never touching the girl . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"Oh, father," broke in the girl, "tell him it was noble!"

In the flash of an eye, Dan was making for the assassin

Opposite, smiling at him as though they had breakfasted together for
years, was the radiant girl

DAN MERRITHEW

CHAPTER I

THE GIRL ON THE "VEILED LADYE"

The big coastwise tug _Hydrog