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Title: The Boy Scouts In Russia

Author: John Blaine

Illustrator: E. A. Furman

Release Date: August 18, 2005 [EBook #16544]

Language: English

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THE BOY SCOUTS IN RUSSIA

_by_

CAPTAIN JOHN BLAINE

_Illustrated by_

E.A. FURMAN

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

Chicago AKRON, OHIO New York

Copyright, 1916
by
Saalfield Publishing Company

[Illustration: "Go! Hurry! Get this coat and helmet off me!"]

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I The Border 11

II Under Arrest 25

III A Strange Meeting 37

IV Cousins 49

V The Germans 61

VI The Tunnel 73

VII A Daring Ruse 85

VIII Within the Enemy's Lines 99

IX "There's Many a Slip--" 111

X Sentenced 125

XI The Cossacks 137

XII The Trick 151

XIII The Escape 165

XIV Altered Plans 179

XV A Dash Through the Night 193

XVI Between the Grindstones 205

XVII An Old Enemy 217

XVIII The Great White Czar 229

In Russian Trenches

CHAPTER I

THE BORDER

A train had just come to a stop in the border station of Virballen. Half
of the platform of that station is in Russia; half of it in East
Prussia, the easternmost province of the German empire. All trains that
pass from one country to the other stop there. There are customs men,
soldiers, policemen, Prussian and Russian, who form a gauntlet all
travelers must run. Here passports must be shown, trunks opened. Getting
in or out of Russia is not a simple business, even in the twentieth
century. All sorts of people can't come in while a good