THE ADVENTUROUS SEVEN
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   By BESSIE MARCHANT
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    "THE DOCTOR'S CANE CAME CUTTING THROUGH THE AIR"]
   THE ADVENTUROUS SEVEN
   Their Hazardous Undertaking
   by
   BESSIE MARCHANT
   Author of "The Heroine of the Ranch" "The Loyalty of Hester Hope""A Princess of Servia" "The Youngest Sister" &c.
   Illustrated by W. R. S. Stott
   Blackie and Son LimitedLondon Glasgow and Bombay
   Contents
         Chap.                                                 Page         I. The Great Idea                                     9        II. The Deputation                                    18       III. The Emigrants                                     34        IV. Rumple's Discovery                                49         V. The End of the Voyage                             61        VI. A Real Friend                                     73       VII. The One-armed Man                                 88      VIII. The Start                                        102        IX. In a Strange Place                               114         X. A Fright at Night                                124        XI. Anxious Hours                                    136       XII. Repairing the Damage                             148      XIII. In Sight of Hammerville                          159       XIV. The Arrival                                      173        XV. A Great Shock                                    186       XVI. The Next Thing To Be Done                        196      XVII. In the Thick of It                               213     XVIII. "Father, We Want You!"                           225       XIX. The News                                         243        XX. How It All Ended                                 252