«The Boy Scouts In Russia»

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Title: The Boy Scouts In Russia

Author: Blaine John

Illustrator: E. A. Furman

Release Date: August 18, 2005 note 1

Language: English

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THE BOY SCOUTS IN RUSSIA

by CAPTAIN JOHN BLAINE

Illustrated by E.A. FURMAN

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

Chicago AKRON, OHIO New York

Copyright, 1916 by Saalfield Publishing Company

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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 XIII The Escape 165 XIV Altered Plans 179

XV A Dash Through the Night 193

XVI Between the Grindstones 205

XVII An Old Enemy 217

XVIII The Great White Czar 229

In Russian Trenches CHAPTER I

THE BORDER

A train had just come to a stop in the border station of Virballen. Half of the platform of that station is in Russia; half of it in East Prussia, the easternmost province of the German empire. All trains that pass from one country to the other stop there. There are customs men, soldiers, policemen, Prussian and Russian, who form a gauntlet all travelers must run. Here passports must be shown, trunks opened. Getting in or out of Russia is not a simple business, even in the twentieth century. All sorts of people can't come in while a good many who try to get out are turned back, and may have to make a long journey to Siberia if they cannot account for themselves properly.