Published, March 12, 1910
Second edition, March 19, 1910

Thanks are due Mr. Arthur W. Little, president of the Pearson Publishing Company, for permission to use in this novel several incidents in the life of Dan Merrithew which originally appeared in "Pearson's Magazine."

TO
LARRY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [THE GIRL ON THE "VEILED LADYE"]
II. [DAN'S SEARCH FOR THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT]
III. [A FIGHT IN THE DARK]
IV. [DAN STAKES HIS LIFE, AND WINS]
V. [THE LOSS OF THE "FLEDGLING"]
VI. [THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR]
VII. [DAN IS COMMANDED TO A PARTY]
VIII. [WITS VERSUS MACHINE GUNS]
IX. [AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION]
X. [THE WRAITH IN THE MOONLIGHT]
XI. [THE BURNING OF THE "TAMPICO"]
XII. [ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE]
XIII. [NIGHT ON THE DERELICT]
XIV. [DAN AND VIRGINIA]
XV. [CONCLUSION]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ Tongues of flame reached hungrily for them, licking above Dan's red-gold hair, but never touching the girl………Frontispiece ]

[ "Oh, father," broke in the girl, "tell him it was noble!" ]

[ In the flash of an eye, Dan was making for the assassin ]

[ Opposite, smiling at him as though they had breakfasted together for years, was the radiant girl ]