JOHN FINNEMORE

Author of
"Jack Haydon's Quest," "Two Boys in War-time," etc.

A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5, AND 6, SOHO SQUARE
LONDON, W.1
1923

First published October 15, 1908
Reprinted 1909, 1910, 1911, 1914 and 1917
This edition published in 1922; Reprinted in 1922, 1923
Printed in Great Britain by
WARRILLOWS LTD., PRINTERS,
Birmingham and London.

DEDICATED (BY SPECIAL PERMISSION)
TO
LIEUT.-GENERAL R. S. S. BADEN-POWELL, C.B.
THE FOUNDER OF THE ADMIRABLE MOVEMENT
ON WHICH THIS STORY IS BASED