For half a minute or so it rocked and swayed against the sky-line.

HIGHWAY PIRATES

OR, THE SECRET PLACE AT COVERTHORNE

By

HAROLD AVERY

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK
1920

CONTENTS.

I. [A Day of Trouble]
II. [The Knocking on the Wall]
III. [Men in Hiding]
IV. [The Singing Ghost]
V. [Nicholas Coverthorne Shows his Hand]
VI. [A Mad Prank]
VII. [Tried and Sentenced]
VIII. [My Journey Begins]
IX. [The Rising]
X. [Highway Pirates]
XI. [The Last of the "True Blue"]
XII. [Within the Cavern]
XIII. [The Brandy Kegs]
XIV. [Abandoned]
XV. [In Desperate Straits]
XVI. [The Subterranean Tunnel]
XVII. [Daylight at Last]
XVIII. [A Further Find]
XIX. [Brought to Bay]