[CHAPTER V. "IS IT BECAUSE YOU WENT TO THE BAD?"]

[CHAPTER VI. FATHER AND SON]

[CHAPTER VII. AN ARRIVAL, AND THE NOISE IN THE NIGHT]

[CHAPTER VIII. GERALDINE'S BURGLAR]

[CHAPTER IX. THE APPEAL]

TWO BRAVE BOYS

[CHAPTER I.]

THE MUTTERINGS OF THE STORM.

IT was the month of January, and the keen Russian winter had wrapped the woods and marshes in a snowy garment, and put the rivers in prison behind thick panes of ice glass, and dressed up the tall pines and firs till they looked like sheeted ghosts under the cold starlight.