[Illustration: "SHE STOOD ADMIRING HERSELF FOR A LONG TIME"] A Soldier's Daughter AND OTHER STORIES BY G. A. HENTY Author of "With Buller in Natal" "The Lion of St. Mark" "The Young Carthaginian" "In Freedom's Cause" &c. _ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCES EWAN_ BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW DUBLIN BOMBAY 1906 CONTENTS A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER: Chap. Page I. A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 7 II. ATTACKED 20 III. HARD PRESSED 34 IV. PRISONERS 48 V. ESCAPED 62 VI. ROUGH TRAVELLING 75 VII. A SKIRMISH 90 VIII. DARLINGER AGAIN 104 HOW COUNT CONRAD VON WALDENSTURM TOOK GOLDSTEIN 115 A RAID BY THE BLACKS 171 ILLUSTRATIONS Page "SHE STOOD ADMIRING HERSELF FOR A LONG TIME" _Frontis._ "I WISH I HAD BEEN A BOY INSTEAD OF A GIRL," NITA SAID 9 "SHE SUDDENLY SAT DOWN ON THE NEXT BED, FAINT AND SICK" 30 "NITA HAD ONE SHOT LEFT IN HER REVOLVER, AND SHE DIRECTED THIS AGAINST HER FOREHEAD" 51 THE ESCAPE FROM THE CASTLE 156 EFFIE GIVES THE ALARM 192 A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER CHAPTER I A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION