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CLIPPED WINGS
BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN
"No boy alive will be able to peruse Mr. Westerman's pages without a quickening of his pulses."—Outlook.
A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine.
Clipped Wings: Thrills in Three Elements.
Sea Scouts up-Channel; or, The Cruise of the Spindrift.
The Wireless Officer.
The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate Story.
Sea Scouts Abroad: Further Adventures of the Olivette.
The Salving of the "Fusi Yama": A Post-War Story of the Sea.
Sea Scouts All: How the Olivette was won.
Winning his Wings: A Story of the R.A.F.
The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge: April, 1918.
With Beatty off Jutland: A Romance of the Great Sea Fight.
The Submarine Hunters: A Story of Naval Patrol Work.
A Lively Bit of the Front: A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front.
A Sub and a Submarine: The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War.
Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War.
Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War.
The Fight for Constantinople: A Tale of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
A Lad of Grit: A Story of Restoration Times.
LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, Ltd., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
[Illustration: MAKING UP THE RIVER Page 93]
CLIPPED WINGS
BY
PERCY F. WESTERMAN
Author of "The Wireless Officer"
"Sea Scouts up-Channel," &c.
Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
Printed and bound in Great Britain
Contents
Chap. Page
I. Paid Off 9
II. A Day of Surprises 17
III. Uncle Brian 27
IV. Don Ramon Diaz 34
V. The Menace 40
VI. The Super Flying-boat 48
VII. Peter's First Ascent 54
VIII. Uncle Brian's Secret 62
IX. The Proving of the Rays 69
X. Plans for Escape 79
XI. Up the Rio Guaya 87
XII. "Caught Out" 100
XIII. Wrecked 110
XIV. A Change of Locomotion 120
XV. Over the Sierras 131
XVI. "Crashed" 143
XVII. The Passage Perilous 152
XVIII. Orders for Cavendish 162
XIX. The Decoy Ship 169
XX. Two Against One 180
XXI. A Stern Chase 191
XXII. Flying-boats versus Destroyers 200
XXIII. At the Admiralty 212
XXIV. War in Home Waters 224
XXV. Seaplane and Submarine 232
XXVI. Orders to Proceed 241
XXVII. In Action—Fore-top 250
XXVIII. In Action—'Tween Decks 265
XXIX. After the Battle 279
XXX. The End of the Rioguayan Air Fleet 288
XXXI. Peter Goes Ashore 299
XXXII. "The Fence Impregnable" 311
Illustrations
Facing page
Making up the river Frontispiece
Peter meets Señor Diaz 32
Peter tackles the Sentry 128
The "Panic Party" (missing from book) 184
"Weeds! Bear a hand!" 272
A blaze of dazzling beams 296