Transcriber's Note:
A Table of Contents has been added.
The hanging hyphen, and the lack of punctuation, at the end
of two of the advertisement pages have been left as they occurred in the book.
MILNE'S EXPRESS SERIES
A DESPERATE VOYAGE
THE EXPRESS SERIES
Uniform with this Volume
I. THE ROME EXPRESS
BY
Major ARTHUR GRIFFITHS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
II. A GIRL OF GRIT
JOHN MILNE
12 Norfolk Street, Strand, London
A DESPERATE
VOYAGE
BY E. F. KNIGHT
AUTHOR OF "THE CRUISE OF THE FALCON"
"WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET"
ETC. ETC.
JOHN MILNE
12 Norfolk Street, Strand, London
1898
All Rights Reserved
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page |
| I | 5 |
| II | 12 |
| III | 24 |
| IV | 37 |
| V | 50 |
| VI | 59 |
| VII | 73 |
| VIII | 85 |
| IX | 96 |
| X | 112 |
| XI | 122 |
| XII | 136 |
| XIII | 146 |
| XIV | 155 |
| XV | 169 |
| XVI | 185 |
| XVII | 201 |
| XVIII | 214 |
| ADVERTISEMENTS |
A DESPERATE VOYAGE
CHAPTER I
In Carey Street, Chancery Lane, on the ground floor of a huge block ofnew buildings facing the Law Courts, were the offices of Messrs. Petersand Carew, solicitors and perpetual commissioners of oaths. Such was thetitle of the firm as inscribed on the side of the entrance door in