CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I. Dick Makes a Friend]
[CHAPTER II. A Surprising Offer]
[CHAPTER III. The Police Raid]
[CHAPTER IV. The Refuge]
[CHAPTER V. Under Fire]
[CHAPTER VI. Across the Save]
[CHAPTER VII. The Wounded Captain]
[CHAPTER VIII. A New Exploit]
[CHAPTER IX. Back to Semlin]
[CHAPTER X. A Daring Decision]
[CHAPTER XI. Craft against Craft]
[CHAPTER XII. In the Nick of Time]
[CHAPTER XIII. Face to Face]
[CHAPTER XIV. The Explosion]
[CHAPTER XV. The Tables Turned]
[CHAPTER XVI. Belgrade]
[CHAPTER XVII. Between the Lines]
[CHAPTER XVIII. The Flight]
[CHAPTER XIX. Hallo's Last Card]
[MARY A. BYRNE'S BOOKS]
[THE BRADEN BOOKS]
[FICTION FOR GIRLS]
[BOOKS FOR BOYS]
Under Fire For Servia
CHAPTER I
DICK MAKES A FRIEND
The American consul in the small but highly important city of Semlin, in Hungary, was a busy man. He was probably one of the first men in the world who knew how great was the danger of war between Austria-Hungary and the little kingdom of Servia after the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne in the summer of 1914. Now, since the Austrian ultimatum to Servia had aroused all Europe to the peril, refugees had doubled the consul's work. All the Americans in Servia, and there had been quite a number there that summer, seemed to be pouring through Semlin. Indeed, all the Americans gathered there from all the Balkan states, and from Turkey as well, since the great trunk railway, the famous Orient line, crossed the Save river at Belgrade, and Semlin was therefore a border town, where in many cases passports had to be examined.
So it was a hard matter for any stranger to see the consul in person unless he could prove that his business was of the greatest importance. His office force did all it could to give him the time he needed to catch up with his duties, but on a sunny morning late in July there came a visitor who refused to be put off. The consul heard him as he sat at his desk, writing frantically.