CHAPTER PAGE
I.—The Captain of the Crew Resigns[1]
II.—Trying to Become a Reporter[16]
III.—The Old Gentleman of the Oxygen[32]
IV.—Beginning a New Life[49]
V.—The Kind of a Fellow Billings Was[66]
VI.—A Reporter at Home[81]
VII.—“No Loafers nor Reporters Admitted”[96]
VIII.—”Lord Steerem,” the Coxswain[111]
IX.—An Act of Folly and a Cruel Dispatch[125]
X.—Myles Makes a Startling Discovery[141]
XI.—A Fight and a Mistake[157]
XII.—Myles Falls into a Trap[172]
XIII.—The Strikers Capture a Train[186]
XIV.—A Race against Time[199]
XV.—The 50th Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y.[214]
XVI.—Recalled and Dismissed[229]
XVII.—The Best Sister in the World[243]
XVIII.—Who Robbed the Safe?[260]
XIX.—Reinstated and Arrested[277]
XX.—Collecting Evidence for the Defence[294]
XXI.—A Day of Trial[311]
XXII.—Triumphantly Acquitted[329]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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“ANY THING GOING ON TO-NIGHT?” VAN CLEEF ASKED THE POLICE SERGEANT[Frontispiece]
“IF YOU MUST GO TO WORK AT ONCE, WHY NOT TRY JOURNALISM?”[14]
VAN CLEEF SAID SOMETHING TO THE CITY EDITOR IN A LOW TONE[30]
A HOARSE VOICE SHOUTED THE OMINOUS WORD “SPOTTER”[68]
“I DON’T SEE HOW WE CAN BREAK THROUGH THAT RULE, EVEN IN YOUR CASE”[96]
AS HE WAS STOOPING TO SET FIRE TO THE READY FUEL, THE SOUND OF HIS OWN NAME CAUSED HIM TO DROP THE MATCH[150]
THE STRIKERS REORGANIZING THE MILITIA[192]
THE CAR PLUNGED FORWARD, TURNED COMPLETELY OVER, AND CRUSHED POOR MYLES BENEATH IT[212]
THE NEXT MOMENT HE FOUND HIMSELF STANDING ON THE PLATFORM BESIDE THE COLONEL[226]
HE LEANED GLOOMILY AGAINST THE MANTEL SHELF THAT NEARLY FILLED ONE SIDE OF THE ROOM[248]
“WHO ARE YOU?” SAID BILL, HOLDING ON TO TIGE WITH ALL HIS MIGHT[310]
“IT’S ALL RIGHT, OLD MAN. YOUR SPACE HAS BEEN MEASURED, AND THE FULL BILL IS ALLOWED” [342]

UNDER ORDERS.