BOOK 2

ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN

["Cheer up," said Mr George Brown]
[Mr Gibbs, with his back against the post, fought for nearly half an hour]
["Where is he?" she gasped]
["Gone!" exclaimed both gentlemen "Where?"]

FRIENDS IN NEED

R. Joseph Gibbs finished his half-pint in the private bar of the Red Lion with the slowness of a man unable to see where the next was coming from, and, placing the mug on the counter, filled his pipe from a small paper of tobacco and shook his head slowly at his companions.

"First I've 'ad since ten o'clock this morning," he said, in a hard voice.