Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: "INCH BY INCH THEY WERE DRIVEN BACK"] A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by PERCY F. WESTERMAN _ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD S. HODGSON_ BLACKIE & SON LIMITED LONDON AND GLASGOW 1909 By Percy F. Westerman Captain Fosdyke’s Gold. In Defiance of the Ban. Captain Sang. The Senior Cadet. The Amir’s Ruby. The Secret of the Plateau. Leslie Dexter, Cadet. All Hands to the Boats. A Mystery of the Broads. Rivals of the Reef. A Shanghai Adventure. Pat Stobart in the "Golden Dawn". The Junior Cadet. Captain Starlight. The Sea-Girt Fortress. On the Wings of the Wind. Captured at Tripoli. Captain Blundell’s Treasure. The Third Officer. Unconquered Wings. The Riddle of the Air. Chums of the "Golden Vanity". Clipped Wings. The Luck of the "Golden Dawn". The Salving of the "Fusi Yama". Winning his Wings. A Lively Bit of the Front. A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine. The Good Ship "Golden Effort". East In the "Golden Gain". The Quest of the "Golden Hope". Sea Scouts Abroad. Sea Scouts Up-Channel. The Wireless Officer. A Lad of Grit. The Submarine Hunters. Sea Scouts All. The Thick of the Fray. A Sub and a Submarine. Under the White Ensign. The Fight for Constantinople. With Beatty off Jutland. The Dispatch Riders. _Printed in Great Britain by Blackie & Son, Ltd., Glasgow_ ―――― CONTENTS CHAPTER I--How the Tidings of the Restoration Came to Rake CHAPTER II--Of the Arrest and Escape of Increase Joyce CHAPTER III--Concerning my Journey to Portsmouth CHAPTER IV--How Judgment was Passed on the Dorset Smugglers CHAPTER V--Of my First Ship, the _Gannet_ CHAPTER VI--Of the Finding of Pedro Alvarez, and of the Strange Tale that he Told CHAPTER VII--Concerning the Treasure Island CHAPTER VIII--Of an Encounter with an Algerine Corsair CHAPTER IX--I lose the _Little Gannet_ CHAPTER X--How I Defended the Foretop CHAPTER XI--Of the Manner of my Homecoming CHAPTER XII--The Smugglers’ Cave CHAPTER XIII--The Escape CHAPTER XIV--I Set Out to Fight the Dutch CHAPTER XV--Of the Famous Sea Fight of Four Days CHAPTER XVI--I Meet an Old Enemy CHAPTER XVII--Showing that there are Two Means of Leaving a Prison CHAPTER XVIII--The Veil is Partly Drawn CHAPTER XIX--How Three Horsemen set out for the North CHAPTER XX--What we Heard and Saw at Holwick. CHAPTER XXI--Our Search for the Treasure ―――― Illustrations