Chapter I: Front Matter

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: "OF WHAT OFFENCE AM I ACCUSED, SIR?" _Page_ 202. _Frontispiece_]

The

Dispatch-Riders

The Adventures of Two British
Motor-cyclists in the Great War

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of "Rivals of the Reef" "The Sea-girt Fortress" &c. &c.

_Illustrated by F. Gillett_

BLACKIE & SON LIMITED

LONDON AND GLASGOW

1915

By Percy F. Westerman

The Red Pirate.
The Call of the Sea.
Standish of the Air Police.
Sleuths of the Air.
The Black Hawk.
Andy All-Alone.
The Westow Talisman.
The White Arab.
The Buccaneers of Boya.
Rounding up the Raider.
Captain Fosdyke's Gold.
In Defiance of the Ban.
The Senior Cadet.
The Amir's Ruby.
The Secret of the Plateau.
Leslie Dexter, Cadet.
All Hands to the Boats.
A Mystery of the Broads.
Rivals of the Reef.
A Shanghai Adventure.
The Junior Cadet.
Captain Starlight.
The Sea-Girt Fortress.
On the Wings of the Wind.
Captain Blundell's Treasure.
The Third Officer.
Unconquered Wings.
The Riddle of the Air.
Chums of the "Golden Vanity".
Clipped Wings.
Rocks Ahead!
King for a Month.
The Disappearing Dhow.
The Luck of the "Golden Dawn".
The Salving of the "Fusi Yama".
Winning his Wings.
A Lively Bit of the Front.
The Good Ship "Golden Effort".
East in the "Golden Gain".
The Quest of the "Golden Hope".
Sea Scouts Abroad.
Sea Scouts Up-Channel.
The Wireless Officer.
A Lad of Grit.
The Submarine Hunters.
Sea Scouts All.
The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge.
A Sub and a Submarine.
Under the White Ensign.
With Beatty off Jutland.
The Dispatch Riders.

_Printed in Great Britain by Blackie & Son, Ltd., Glasgow_

Contents

CHAP.

I. THE COMING STORM
II. A BREAK-DOWN
III. MAJOR RESIMONT
IV. ENLISTED
V. A BAPTISM OF FIRE
VI. A VAIN ASSAULT
VII. DISABLING A TAUBE
VIII. IN BRITISH UNIFORMS
IX. A MIDNIGHT RETIREMENT
X. THE UHLAN PATROL
XI. THE RAID ON TONGRES
XII. THE MAIL ESCORT
XIII. SEPARATED
XIV. A FRIEND IN NEED
XV. CAPTURED
XVI. ENTOMBED
XVII. THE WAY OUT
XVIII. THROUGH THE ENEMY'S LINES
XIX. ARRESTED AS SPIES
XX. STRANDED IN BRUSSELS
XXI. DENOUNCED
XXII. THE SACK OF LOUVAIN
XXIII. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
XXIV. ACROSS THE FRONTIER
XXV. THELMA EVEREST
XXVI. SELF-ACCUSED
XXVII. WITH THE NAVAL BRIGADE AT ANTWERP
XXVIII. WHEN THE CITY FELL
XXIX. ON THE NORTH SEA
XXX. THE VICTORIOUS WHITE ENSIGN

Illustrations

"OF WHAT OFFENCE AM I ACCUSED, SIR?" . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

KENNETH HAD A MOMENTARY GLIMPSE OF THE UHLAN'S PANIC-STRICKEN FACE ... THEN CRASH!

KENNETH SUCCEEDED IN THROWING THE SPY TO THE FLOOR

THE DISPATCH-RIDERS