For Name and Fame G. A. Henty Author

ContentsPreface.Chapter 1: The Lost Child.Chapter 2: The Foundling.Chapter 3: Life On A Smack.Chapter 4: Run Down.Chapter 5: The Castaways.Chapter 6: The Attack On The Village.Chapter 7: The Fight With The Prahus.Chapter 8: The Torpedo.Chapter 9: The... Read more

ContentsPreface.Chapter 1: The Lost Child.Chapter 2: The Foundling.Chapter 3: Life On A Smack.Chapter 4: Run Down.Chapter 5: The Castaways.Chapter 6: The Attack On The Village.Chapter 7: The Fight With The Prahus.Chapter 8: The Torpedo.Chapter 9: The Advance Into Afghanistan.Chapter 10: The Peiwar-Khotal.Chapter 11: A Prisoner.Chapter 12: The Advance Up The Khyber.Chapter 13: The Massacre At Cabul.Chapter 14: The Advance Upon Cabul.Chapter 15: The Fighting Round Cabul.Chapter 16: The Fight In The Pass.Chapter 17: At Candahar.Chapter 18: On The Helmund.Chapter 19: The Battle Of Maiwand.Chapter 20: Candahar.Chapter 21: The Battle Of Candahar.Chapter 22: At Home At Last.Chapter 1: The Lost Child.My poor pets! a lady exclaimed, sorrowfully; it is too bad. Theyall knew me so well; and ran to meet me, when they saw me coming;and seemed really pleased to see me, even when I had no food togive them.Which was not often, my dear, Captain Ripon--her husband--said.However it is, as you say, too bad; and I will bring the fellow tojustice, if I can. There are twelve prize fowls--worth a couple ofguineas apiece, not to mention the fact of their being pets ofyours--stolen, probably by tramps; who will eat them, and for whomthe commonest barn-door chickens would have done as well. There aremarks of blood in two or three places, so they have evidently beenkilled for food. The house was locked up last night, all right; foryou see they got in by breaking in a panel of the door. Less