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Title: The Adventure League

Author: Hilda T. Skae

Release Date: November 28, 2009 [EBook #30554]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: 'There is something in the man's appearance which seems
familiar to me.' _page 139_]

THE ADVENTURE LEAGUE

BY

HILDA T. SKAE

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK

TORONTO, AND PARIS

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. WHAT HAPPENED IN ERRICHA
II. 'THE PIRATES' DEN'
III. A SURPRISE
IV. THE COMPACT
V. SUSPENSE
VI. A DISCOVERY
VII. THE SIEGE
VIII. A CRUISE IN THE 'HEROIC'
IX. DISAPPOINTMENT
X. IN WHICH ALLAN IS VERY WISE
XI. A NEAR SHAVE
XII. SURROUNDED
XIII. ANDREW MACPETERS
XIV. CAUGHT
XV. HAMISH TO THE RESCUE

[Illustration: Map of Erricha Island]

THE ADVENTURE LEAGUE

CHAPTER I

WHAT HAPPENED IN ERRICHA.

It was very early on a bright summer morning. Rocks and heather and
green fields lay bathed in sunshine; and round the shores of a small
island on the west coast of Scotland the sea was dancing and splashing,
while in the distance the Highland hills raised their bare crests
towards a cloudless sky.

The sun had not long risen, and it seemed as though no one could be
stirring at this early hour; yet there was an unusual commotion among
the birds nesting on the ledges of a high cliff. The funny little
puffins, with their red, parrot-like bills, were peering anxiously out
of the crevices; while the curious little auks, standing erect in rows
like black and white mannikins, were exceedingly perturbed; and the
kittiwakes flew screaming from the rocky shelves, joining their voices
to the hoarser cries of the guillemots and the booming of the waves
among walls and pillars of rock.

The cause of the birds' agitation was not far to seek. Some figures,
looking very small upon the huge cliff, were crawling on their hands
and knees upon the ledges, gathering e