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CHAPTER I. UNDER THE CEDAR TREE
CHAPTER II. LEFT BEHIND!
CHAPTER III. THE BABES IN THE WOOD
CHAPTER IV. FAR, FAR AWAY!
CHAPTER V. GONE AMISSING!
CHAPTER VI. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. "DREADNOUGHT"
CHAPTER VII. HILL DIFFICULTY
CHAPTER VIII. BAMBO AND BRUNO
CHAPTER IX. THE NEXT MORNING
CHAPTER X. THE HAPPY LAND
CHAPTER XI. A SUDDEN FLIGHT
CHAPTER XII. FOLLOWED BY THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XIII. A TERRIBLE FRIGHT
CHAPTER XIV. AT EVENING TIME
CHAPTER XV. BAMBO'S FRIEND
CHAPTER XVI. COMING AND GOING
CHAPTER XVII. ADIEU!
It was pleasant under the shade of the huge cedar tree on the lawn atFirgrove that golden Sunday afternoon. It was autumn, really and truly,going by the calendar at the back of the small cat-eared diary whichDarby had coaxed from his father and always carried in his pocket. Yetthe sunshine was so bright and warm, the birds were singing so joyouslyin the thickets, the rooks cawed so loudly as they wheeled and circledlike a dense black battalion at drill up against the cloudless blue ofthe sky, that it was hard to believe the diary people had not made amistake in their reckonings or stupidly mixed their dates.
Indeed, one would have been quite sure they had done some