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Title: Tales of Daring and Danger

Author: George Alfred Henty

Illustrator: George Alfred Henty

Release Date: October 26, 2005 [EBook #7870]

Language: English

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TALES OF DARING AND DANGER.

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[Illustration: SIGHTING THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER.]

TALES OF

DARING AND DANGER.

BY

G.A. HENTY,

Author of "Yarns on the Beach;" "Sturdy and Strong;" "Facing Death;" "By
Sheer Pluck;" "With Clive in India;" &c.

_ILLUSTRATED._

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LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, 49 & 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. GLASGOW, EDINBURGH, AND
DUBLIN.

1890.

CONTENTS.

Page
BEARS AND DACOITS, 7

THE PATERNOSTERS, 37

A PIPE OF MYSTERY, 71

WHITE-FACED DICK, 99

A BRUSH WITH THE CHINESE, 119

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BEARS AND DACOITS.

A TALE OF THE GHAUTS.

CHAPTER I.

A merry party were sitting in the verandah of one of the largest and
handsomest bungalows of Poonah. It belonged to Colonel Hastings, colonel
of a native regiment stationed there, and at present, in virtue of
seniority, commanding a brigade. Tiffin was on, and three or four
officers and four ladies had taken their seats in the comfortable cane
lounging chairs which form the invariable furniture of the verandah of a
well-ordered bungalow. Permission had been duly asked, and granted by
Mrs. Hastings, and the cheroots had just begun to draw, when Miss
Hastings, a niece of the colonel, who had only arrived the previous week
from England, said,--

"Uncle, I am quite disappointed. Mrs. Lyons showed me the bear she has
got tied up in their compound, and it is the most wretched little thing,
not bigger than Rover, papa's retriever, and i