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DICK MERRIWELL ABROAD

Or

The Ban of the Terrible Ten

by

BURT L. STANDISH

Author of the celebrated "Merriwell" stories, which are
the favorite reading of over half a million up-to-date
American boys. Catalogue sent free upon request.







Street & Smith, Publishers
79-89 Seventh Ave., New York City

Copyright, 1904 and 1905
By Street & Smith

Dick Merriwell Abroad

All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian.




CONTENTS

         I. THE STORY OF QUEEN MARY.
        II. THE MEETING AT THE CASTLE.
       III. AT BEN CLEUCH INN.
        IV. BUDTHORNE'S STRUGGLE.
         V. LIKE A BIRD OF EVIL OMEN.
        VI. BUNOL'S PLOT.
       VII. DONE BENEATH THE STARS.
      VIII. BUNOL MAKES HIS DEMAND.
        IX. THE FIGHT IN THE CASTLE.
         X. THE HAUNTS OF ROBIN HOOD.
        XI. THE SPANIARD AGAIN.
       XII. THE STRUGGLE.
      XIII. PROFESSOR GUNN'S WILD RIDE.
       XIV. AN EXCITING CHASE.
        XV. THE HAUNTED MILL.
       XVI. SUNSET ON THE GRAND CANAL.
      XVII. THE RING OF IRON.
     XVIII. WHEN STEEL MEETS STEEL.
       XIX. THE BURSTING OF THE DOOR.
        XX. THE OATH OF TERESA.
       XXI. THE LAST STROKE.
      XXII. BEFORE THE PARTHENON.
     XXIII. FIGHTING BLOOD OF AMERICA.
      XXIV. MARO AND TYRUS.
       XXV. TWO ENGLISHMEN.
      XXVI. WAS IT A MISTAKE?
     XXVII. THE PURSUIT.
    XXVIII. DONATUS, THE SULIOTE.
      XXIX. IN THE CAVE.
       XXX. OUT OF THE TOILS.




DICK MERRIWELL ABROAD.




CHAPTER I.

THE STORY OF QUEEN MARY.


"Well, here we are, boys, in Scotland, the land of feuds, of clans, of
Wallace, Bruce, Scott, Burns, and of limitless thrilling stories and
legends."

Professor Zenas Gunn was the speaker. With Dick Merriwell and Brad
Buckhart, Merriwell's friend and former roommate at the Fardale Military
Academy, as his traveling companions, he had landed at Leith the
previous day, having come by steamer from London. The three were now in
Edinburgh, strolling down High Street on their way to visit Holyrood
Castle.

It was nipping cold. There had been a light fall of snow; but the sun
was shining, and the clear air, in strong contrast to the heavy, smoky
atmosphere of London, gave them a feeling of lightness and exhilaration.

Perhaps it is not quite true to say it gave them all such a feeling, for
there was an expression of disappointment on the face of the boy from
Texas, a slight cloud of gloom that nothing seemed to dispel.

The old professor, however, was in high spirits.

"While we're here, boys," he said, "we'll visit as many of the
interesting places as possible. Already we have seen Scott's monument,
and to-morrow we will make an excursion to Melrose, and visit Melrose
Abbey and Abbotsford. Later on, perhaps, we'll run over to Loch Lomond
and see Rob Roy's prison and the cottage where Helen MacGregor, Rob
Roy's wife, was born. At Stirling we'll feast our eyes on the Wallace
Monument, which stands on the spot where the great hero defeated
England's army of invasion. Think what it will mean to stand on the
field of Bannockburn!

"The English army, my boys, numbered one hundred thousand, while the
Scots were less than forty thousand. But Scotland had not forgotten the
terrible death of Wallace, who had been captured, carried to London,
condemned to die, hanged, cut down while yet alive, to have portions of
his body burned, and at last to be decapitated, his head being afterward
placed on a pole on London Bridge. The Scottish army of forty thousand
was led by the successor and av