Produced by Al Haines [Illustration: Cover art] [Frontispiece: Turning the hilt towards her father, she threw back her head and closed her eyes] LIKE ANOTHER HELEN BY GEORGE HORTON ILLUSTRATED BY C. M. RELYEA "_And, like another Helen, fired another Troy_" INDIANAPOLIS _The_ BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1900 BY GEORGE HORTON COPYRIGHT 1901 BY THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY Braunworth, Munn & Barber Printers and Binders Brooklyn, N. Y. DEDICATED BY KIND PERMISSION TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE OF GREECE HIGH COMMISSIONER IN CRETE Contents I Youthful Enthusiasm II On Friendly Shores III A Comic Opera Town IV A Dinner Of Herbs V Some Pictures and a Recitation VI The First of May VII A Demand and a Coward VIII Smoke by Day and Fire by Night IX Awaiting the Signal X War in Earnest XI An Amateur Surgeon XII "Still I Say unto you, Courage!" XIII The Brave Thing to do XIV A Critical Moment XV The Man in the Barrel XVI To No Avail XVII In the Track of War XVIII A Deserted Town XIX A Blow in the Dark XX Four Against One XXI "My life, I love you" XXII The Ambush XXIII A Friend Worth Having XXIV A Glittering Esplanade XXV Three Wives XXVI A Hopeless Prisoner XXVII A Promise of Help XXVIII Pride and its Fall XXIX Against the Common Enemy XXX A Hero and a six-inch Shell XXXI A Grateful Major XXXII A Violent Wooer XXXIII The Innocent Onlooker XXXIV Still with the Army XXXV In the Midst of Alarms XXXVI An Interrupted Rescue XXXVII Ye Who Enter Here XXXVIII The Better Part of Valor XXXIX To a Place of Safety XL A Troubled Mind XLI Romance and Prudence LIKE ANOTHER HELEN CHAPTER I YOUTHFUL ENTHUSIASM Just at sunset one day in the last week of March, 1897, a caique set sail from the harbor of Piræus, ostensibly laden with cognac for Cairo, but in reality carrying a small revolving cannon and a large number of Gras rifles to the insurgents in Crete, who had risen for the hundredth time and were fighting desperately for liberty and the Christian faith. There were several large barrels, conspicuously marked "Koniak" in Greek characters, on the deck, and a number of boxes that bore the legend, "Two dozen bottles from Kambas, Athens." The legend was not untruthful, for one of the huge casks, at least, contained the fiery liquid attributed to it; numberless others, in the hold, were filled with guns, and the boxes below deck were packed with ammunition.