{"product_id":"2940012897930","title":"ROUNDING UP THE RAIDER","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.  THE CAPTURED LINER\u003cbr\u003e    II.  THE LAST OF THE _NICHI MARU_\u003cbr\u003e   III.  ON BOARD THE RAIDER\u003cbr\u003e    IV.  THREATENED\u003cbr\u003e     V.  THE PURSUIT OF THE _PELIKAN_\u003cbr\u003e    VI.  THE DECOY\u003cbr\u003e   VII.  FOILED BY A COLLIER\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.  REINFORCEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e    IX.  THE MIDNIGHT LANDING\u003cbr\u003e     X.  THE LAGOON\u003cbr\u003e    XI.  DENBIGH'S PLAN\u003cbr\u003e   XII.  A PERILOUS JOURNEY\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.  NOCTURNAL INVESTIGATIONS\u003cbr\u003e   XIV.  A NEGLECTED WARNING\u003cbr\u003e    XV.  ARMSTRONG'S PART\u003cbr\u003e   XVI.  THE DISASTER TO THE _MYRA_\u003cbr\u003e  XVII.  A BID FOR FREEDOM\u003cbr\u003e XVIII.  DISAPPOINTMENT\u003cbr\u003e   XIX.  \"OUR LUCK'S OUT\"\u003cbr\u003e    XX.  ADRIFT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN\u003cbr\u003e   XXI.  VON ECKENSTEIN'S SURPRISE\u003cbr\u003e  XXII.  THE MONITORS IN ACTION\u003cbr\u003e XXIII.  HOW THE _PELIKAN_ SURRENDERED\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV.  THE LANDING PARTY\u003cbr\u003e   XXV.  ACCOUNTED FOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDENBIGH AND HIS COMPANIONS ARE PICKED UP BY A\u003cbr\u003e  MONITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"BY JOVE!\" EJACULATED O'HARA. \"SHE MUST BE ONE OF OUR MONITORS\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE 'LOG' WAS A HEALTHY SPECIMEN OF A CROCODILE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"UNLESS THE GERMAN ENSIGN is HAULED DOWN ON BOARD THE _PELIKAN_ WITHIN\u003cbr\u003eAN HOUR, I OPEN FIRE\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROUNDING UP THE RAIDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Captured Liner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fifteen days more and then Old England once again!\" exclaimed Frank\u003cbr\u003eDenbigh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And bonnie Scotland for me!\" added Charlie Stirling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You'll not be forgettin' 'tis Ould Oireland I'm bound for,\"\u003cbr\u003eremonstrated Pat O'Hara, purposely dropping into the brogue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three chums had just been reading the \"miles made good\"\u003cbr\u003eannouncement that, printed in English and Japanese, was daily exhibited\u003cbr\u003ein various parts of S.S. _Nichi Maru_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hostile submarines permitting,\" remarked Denbigh with a laugh, after\u003cbr\u003ehe had taken good care that no lady passengers were within earshot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rot!\" ejaculated Stirling.  \"We've cleared them out of the Channel\u003cbr\u003epretty well.  It's part of the work of the British Navy under----\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stop it!\" interrupted O'Hara good-humouredly.  \"I know what you were\u003cbr\u003egoing to say: that old tag from the Articles of War.  I propose that\u003cbr\u003eevery time the word submarine is mentioned by anyone of us while on\u003cbr\u003eboard this vessel the delinquent shall be suitably punished as soon as\u003cbr\u003ethe sun's over the fore-yard.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hear, hear!  I second that,\" agreed Stirling.  \"No more 'shop'.  We'll\u003cbr\u003eget plenty of that in a few weeks' time.  I fancy My Lords won't let us\u003cbr\u003ekick our heels in idleness for long, and honestly, the sooner we settle\u003cbr\u003edown to business the better.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three chums were Sub-lieutenants, homeward bound from a portion of\u003cbr\u003ea certain group of islands off the coast of New Guinea, having till\u003cbr\u003erecently the high-sounding title of the Bismarck Archipelago.  The\u003cbr\u003eyouthful but none the less glorious Australian Navy had quickly changed\u003cbr\u003ethe colour of that portion of the map, but the climate was a more\u003cbr\u003eformidable foe than the former German garrison.  Thus the three young\u003cbr\u003eofficers, who had been \"lent\" to the recently-formed navy, had the\u003cbr\u003emisfortune to be stricken with fever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a long convalescence, which by a pure coincidence lasted almost\u003cbr\u003eexactly the same time in each of the three cases, Denbigh, Stirling,\u003cbr\u003eand O'Hara were ordered to return to England and to resume their duties\u003cbr\u003ewith the navy of the Motherland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey had travelled by an intermediate boat to Singapore, whence, in\u003cbr\u003eorder to save delay, they had proceeded by a Japanese liner, the _Nichi\u003cbr\u003eMaru_, bound from Nagasaki to London.  It was a case of misdirected\u003cbr\u003ezeal, for, owing to the torpedoing of a large Japanese liner in the\u003cbr\u003eMediterranean, the _Nichi Maru_ had been ordered to take the longer\u003cbr\u003epassage round the Cape instead of the usual route via the Suez Canal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hulloa!  What's the excitement?\" enquired Denbigh, pointing in the\u003cbr\u003edirection of the bridge.  The chums had gained the promenade deck,\u003cbr\u003ewhence most of the navigating bridge of the liner could be seen.  There\u003cbr\u003ewas evidently something to warrant his exclamation, for the dapper\u003cbr\u003elittle Japanese officer of the watch was steadily keeping his\u003cbr\u003ebinoculars upon some distant object.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There's a smudge of smoke away to the nor'east'ard,\" announced\u003cbr\u003eStirling.  \"The mild excitement of sighting a vessel will help to push\u003cbr\u003ethe hands of the clock.  Now if someone will kindly suggest a\u003cbr\u003esweepstake on the nationality of yonder craft----\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe door of the wireless room opened.  The sharp peculiar cackle of the\u003cbr\u003einstruments announced that an exchange of messages was in progress.  A\u003cbr\u003emessenger made his way to the bridge.  Almost immediately after, the\u003cbr\u003ecaptain hurried from his cabin.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079062798576,"sku":"2940012897930","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012897930_p0.jpg?v=1763574022","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012897930","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}