Contents (in alphabetical order)

[How Dymock Came to Derry] (original page: 219)
[Jack Devereux's Scoop] (original page: 482)
[The Powder Hulk] (original page 175)
[Chapter I]
[Chapter II]
[Chapter III]
Illustrations
[As Dymock rose to the surface the Frenchman snapped his pistol, and the boatman aimed a vicious blow at his head with an oar.]
[Suddenly above the beating of the drums came a long-drawn whirr. "An aeroplane," gasped Devereux. "Right," said his companion, "and we may be blown sky-high. Look, the fellow is going to drop a bomb!"]
[He rested his revolver over the horse's body, and took careful aim. Knowing that a slow and fearful death would follow recapture, he vowed he would not be taken alive. (illustrator: George Soper)]
[As their boat rubbed sides with the mysterious craft, the boys saw two motionless figures lying on the bottom-boards. Armitage clambered in, and cautiously touched the form nearest to him. "They're the water-police!" he cried. (illustrator: E.S. Hodgeson)]
[Realising he was discovered, the miscreant bounded over the remaining distance between him and the powder hold, and raised the lighted fuse. (illustrator: E.S. Hodgeson)]

How Dymock came to Derry

- By -
Percy F. Westerman

"WE'RE here at last, Kirke, and methinks none too soon," exclaimed Captain Leake, of His Majesty's frigate Dartmouth, as he pointed to the beleaguered city of Londonderry. "Now your part of the business is to commence."

Colonel Percy Kirke, the defender of Tangiers, the man who had exercised such diabolical cruelty towards the miserable peasants who had taken up arms on behalf of the rebel Monmouth, was now about to succour the Ulstermen, who were fighting for their lives and liberties against King James—the colonel's former sovereign and benefactor.