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DENBIGH AND HIS COMPANIONS ARE RESCUED BY A MONITOR Page 207. Frontispiece

ROUNDING UP THE RAIDER

A Naval Story of the Great War

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of "The Fight for Constantinople" "Sea Scouts All" &c. &c.

Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson

BLACKIE & SON LIMITED LONDON AND GLASGOW 1916

By Percy F. Westerman Haunted Harbour. His Unfinished Voyage. Midshipman Webb's Treasure Winged Might. Captain Flick. Tireless Wings. His First Ship. The Red Pirate. The Call of the Sea. Standish of the Air Police. Sleuths of the Air. 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. Captain Starlight. On the Wings of the Wind. Captain Blundell's Treasure. The Third Officer. Unconquered Wings. Pat Stobart in the "Golden Dawn". Ringed by Fire. Midshipman Raxworthy. 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. The Good Ship "Golden Effort". East in the "Golden Gain". The Quest of the "Golden Hope". The Wireless Officer. The Submarine Hunters. The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge. With Beatty off Jutland. The Dispatch Riders. A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine. With the Last of the Buccaneers. A Lively Bit of the Front. The Westerman Omnibus Book

Printed in Great Britain by Blackie & Son, Ltd., Glasgow

Contents

CHAP.

I. THE CAPTURED LINER

II. THE LAST OF THE NICHI MARU

III. ON BOARD THE RAIDER

IV. THREATENED

V. THE PURSUIT OF THE PELIKAN

VI. THE DECOY

VII. FOILED BY A COLLIER

VIII. REINFORCEMENTS

IX. THE MIDNIGHT LANDING

X. THE LAGOON

XI. DENBIGH'S PLAN

XII. A PERILOUS JOURNEY

XIII. NOCTURNAL INVESTIGATIONS

XIV. A NEGLECTED WARNING

XV. ARMSTRONG'S PART

XVI. THE DISASTER TO THE MYRA

XVII. A BID FOR FREEDOM

XVIII. DISAPPOINTMENT

XIX. "OUR LUCK'S OUT"

XX. ADRIFT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

XXI. VON ECKENSTEIN'S SURPRISE

XXII. THE MONITORS IN ACTION

XXIII. HOW THE PELIKAN SURRENDERED

XXIV. THE LANDING PARTY

XXV. ACCOUNTED FOR

Illustrations

DENBIGH AND HIS COMPANIONS ARE PICKED UP BY A MONITOR . . . . . . Frontispiece

"BY JOVE!" EJACULATED O'HARA. "SHE MUST BE ONE OF OUR MONITORS"

THE 'LOG' WAS A HEALTHY SPECIMEN OF A CROCODILE

"UNLESS THE GERMAN ENSIGN is HAULED DOWN ON BOARD THE PELIKAN WITHIN AN HOUR, I OPEN FIRE"