_The length of the Coupee depends upon--one's feelings, one's temperament, and the exact spots where it really begins and ends. To the nervous it seems endless, and some have found themselves unable to cross it under any conditions whatever. So high an authority as Ansted gives it as 600 feet, others say 300; the simple fact being that, unless one goes for the express methodic purpose of measuring it (which no one ever does), all thought, save that of wonder and admiration, is lost the moment one's foot falls upon it. The span from cliff to cliff is probably something over 300 feet, while, from the dip of the path in Sark to the clearing of the rise in Little Sark, it is probably twice as much._ CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE HOW PAUL MARTEL FELL OUT WITH SERCQ 1 CHAPTER II HOW RACHEL CARRE WENT BACK TO HER FATHER 14 CHAPTER III HOW TWO FOUGHT IN THE DARK 19 CHAPTER IV HOW MARTEL RAISED THE CLAMEUR BUT FOUND NO RELIEF 24 CHAPTER V HOW CARETTE AND I WERE GIRL AND BOY TOGETHER 31 CHAPTER VI HOW CARETTE CAME BY HER GOLDEN BRIDGE 43 CHAPTER VII HOW I SHOWED ONE THE WAY TO THE BOUTIQUES 53 CHAPTER VIII HOW I WENT THE FIRST TIME TO BRECQHOU 65 CHAPTER IX HOW WE BEGAN TO SPREAD OUR WINGS 77 CHAPTER X HOW I BEARDED LIONS IN THEIR DENS 85 CHAPTER XI HOW WE GREW, AND GROWING, GREW APART 94 CHAPTER XII HOW AUNT JEANNE GAVE A PARTY 100 CHAPTER XIII HOW WE RODE GRAY ROBIN 117 CHAPTER XIV HOW YOUNG TORODE TOOK THE DEVIL OUT OF BLACK BOY 130 CHAPTER XV HOW I FELT THE GOLDEN SPUR 142 CHAPTER XVI HOW I WENT TO SEE TORODE OF HERM 156 CHAPTER XVII HOW I WENT OUT WITH JOHN OZANNE 167 CHAPTER XVIII HOW WE CAME ACROSS MAIN ROUGE 172 CHAPTER XIX HOW I FELL INTO THE _RED HAND_ 184 CHAPTER XX HOW I LAY IN THE CLEFT OF A ROCK 197 CHAPTER XXI HOW I FACED DEATHS AND LIVED 202 CHAPTER XXII HOW THE _JOSEPHINE_ CAME HOME 214 CHAPTER XXIII HOW I LAY AMONG LOST SOULS 222 CHAPTER XXIV HOW I CAME ACROSS ONE AT AMPERDOO 230 CHAPTER XXV HOW WE SAID GOOD-BYE TO AMPERDOO 237 CHAPTER XXVI HOW WE FOUND A FRIEND IN NEED 246 CHAPTER XXVII HOW WE CAME UPON A WHITED SEPULCHRE AND FELL INTO THE FIRE 253