Contents

CHAP. PAGE
I How Ethan Carlyle Brought the News of Burgoyne’s Surrender[ 9]
II How a Spy Listened at the Window[ 21]
III How the Shallop Attacked the Island Queen[ 32]
IV Shows How the Ranger Sailed for France[ 46]
V How Ethan Carlyle Faced the Bully of the Ranger[ 62]
VI What Happened by Night in the Harbor of Nantes[ 73]
VII How Longsword Struck Home[ 82]
VIII Shows How Benjamin Franklin Opened the Secret Dispatch[ 104]
IX How Ethan and Longsword Met a Man Named Fochard[ 114]
X The Cruise of the Ranger[ 130]
XI On St. Mary’s Isle[ 151]
XII In Which Danvers Appears Once More[ 162]
XIII How the Spy Lost His Prisoners[ 176]
XIV How Ethan and Longsword Took the Schooner[ 192]
XV How the Schooner Came Upon the Drake in the Darkness[ 209]
XVI How the Ranger Fought the Drake[ 216]
XVII The Secret Agent Once More[ 230]
XVIII The Road to Brest[ 251]
XIX How the Erin Put to Sea[ 266]
XX Shows How a Soldier Came out of Mill Prison[ 279]
XXI The Exploit of Master Dirk Hatfield[ 293]
XXII The Press-Gang[ 304]
XXIII How the Bon Homme Richard Met the Serapis[ 319]
XXIV How the Serapis Struck Her Flag[ 339]
XXV Home and Liberty[ 354]