Chapter I: Front Matter

_To
Rebbie and Fanny Graham_

_With_
JOHN PAUL
JONES

_by_
John T. M^cIntyre
_Author of_
“Fighting King George” etc.

Illustrated
_by_
Clyde O. Deland

THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA
MCMVI

COPYRIGHT 1906 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

Contents

CHAP. PAGE

I HOW ETHAN CARLYLE BROUGHT THE NEWS OF BURGOYNE’S SURRENDER 9

II HOW A SPY LISTENED AT THE WINDOW 21

III HOW THE SHALLOP ATTACKED THE ISLAND QUEEN 32

IV SHOWS HOW THE RANGER SAILED FOR FRANCE 46

V HOW ETHAN CARLYLE FACED THE BULLY OF THE RANGER 62

VI WHAT HAPPENED BY NIGHT IN THE HARBOR OF NANTES 73

VII HOW LONGSWORD STRUCK HOME 82

VIII SHOWS HOW BENJAMIN FRANKLIN OPENED THE SECRET DISPATCH 104

IX HOW ETHAN AND LONGSWORD MET A MAN NAMED FOCHARD 114

X THE CRUISE OF THE RANGER 130

XI ON ST. MARY’S ISLE 151

XII IN WHICH DANVERS APPEARS ONCE MORE 162

XIII HOW THE SPY LOST HIS PRISONERS 176

XIV HOW ETHAN AND LONGSWORD TOOK THE SCHOONER 192

XV HOW THE SCHOONER CAME UPON THE DRAKE IN THE DARKNESS 209

XVI HOW THE RANGER FOUGHT THE DRAKE 216

XVII THE SECRET AGENT ONCE MORE 230

XVIII THE ROAD TO BREST 251

XIX HOW THE ERIN PUT TO SEA 266

XX SHOWS HOW A SOLDIER CAME OUT OF MILL PRISON 279

XXI THE EXPLOIT OF MASTER DIRK HATFIELD 293

XXII THE PRESS-GANG 304

XXIII HOW THE BON HOMME RICHARD MET THE SERAPIS 319

XXIV HOW THE SERAPIS STRUCK HER FLAG 339

XXV HOME AND LIBERTY 354

Illustrations

JOHN PAUL JONES FLUSHED WITH PLEASURE _Frontispiece_

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“I’LL DO IT,” SAID ETHAN PROMPTLY 26

“KEEP THEM AT SWORD’S LENGTH,” SAID CAPTAIN JONES 99

DANVERS CAME DOWN INTO THE HOLD 171

ETHAN CARLYLE STOOD BEFORE THEM 204

AN ANGRY LOOK CAME INTO HATFIELD’S EYES 313

HE BEGAN TO THROW THE GRENADES 349

With John Paul Jones