CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I The Border 11

II Under Arrest 25

III A Strange Meeting 37

IV Cousins 49

V The Germans 61

VI The Tunnel 73

VII A Daring Ruse 85

VIII Within the Enemy's Lines 99

IX "There's Many a Slip--" 111

X Sentenced 125

XI The Cossacks 137

XII The Trick 151