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Title: Two Daring Young Patriots
or, Outwitting the Huns

Author: W. P. Shervill

Release Date: September 17, 2008 [EBook #26645]

Language: English

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TWO DARING YOUNG PATRIOTS

Or, Outwitting the Huns

BY W. P. SHERVILL

Author of "Edgar the Ready"

_Illustrated by Arch. Webb_

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

[Illustration: LIKE A WHIRLWIND THEY FLUNG THEMSELVES UPON THE HATED
FOE]

Contents

I. Trouble in the Crew

II. The Races

III. Max Durend at Home

IV. The Cataclysm

V. The Fall of Liege

VI. A New Standpoint

VII. A Few Words with M. Schenk

VIII. Treachery!

IX. The Opening of the Struggle

X. Getting Ready for Bigger Things

XI. The Attack on the Power-house

XII. The Attack on the Munition-shops and its Sequel

XIII. The German Counter-stroke

XIV. Schenk at Work Again

XV. The Dash

XVI. In the Ardennes

XVII. Cutting the Line

XVIII. Reprisals

XIX. A Further Blow

XX. Across the Frontier

XXI. The Great Coup

Illustrations

Like a whirlwind they flung themselves upon the hated foe

Both lads began to hurl the great stones upon the German soldiery

A cloth was clapped over the soldier's nose and mouth

"It's all right; we're friends"

The two watchers gave a loud full-throated British cheer

TWO DARING YOUNG PATRIOTS

Or, Outwitting the Huns

CHAPTER I

Trouble in the Crew

"Here come Benson's!"

The speaker leaned over the edge of the tow-path and watched an
eight-oared boat swing swiftly round a bend in the river a hundred yards
away and come racing up to the landing-stag