A Story of Heligoland

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of "When East Meets West" "Captured at Tripoli"

"The Quest of the

Golden Hope

"

"A Lad of Grit" &c.

Illustrated by W. E. Wigfull

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED

LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

Contents

CHAP.

I. Man Overboard

II. Through the Fog

III. A Loss and a Find

IV. Arrested

V. A Discovery

VI. Von Wittelsbach's Plan

VII. Official Hindrances

VIII. Sentenced

IX. On the Scent

X. In the Prison Cell

XI. A Night of Toil

XII. Investigations

XIII. An Experiment with a Zeppelin

XIV. The Second Night of Liberty

XV. Recaptured

XVI. The News Leaks Out

XVII. The Sandinsel Tunnel

XVIII. The Errant Airship

XIX. At the Mercy of the Winds

XX. Homeward Bound

XXI. Good Old Hamerton!

XXII. A Momentous Decision

XXIII. First Blood

XXIV. The Battle of the Galloper Sands

XXV. The Fall of the Island Fortress

Illustrations

"Hand over hand he climbed till he reached a metallic beam"

Frontispiece

"Waiting till a wave brought the man within arm's length, the sub clutched hold of him"

"'Spies are not entitled to any consideration of that description'"

"'It's the rounds, by jove!' whispered the sub"

"'Great scott!' he exclaimed; 'it's hamerton'"

"A seaplane contrived to drop a bomb on the royal sovereign's deck"