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  By G. A. HENTY

  In Times of Peril

  A Story of India. Illustrated in Colour by T. C. DUGDALE.

  Major Warrener and his children are stationed at Sandynugghur when newsarrives that the native troops at Meerut have mutinied and murdered allthe Europeans there and are marching upon Delhi. Almost immediately theMajor's house is attacked and his family flee for their lives. TheMajor himself and some of his companions are taken prisoners, but onlyfor a short time, for his sons, Ned and Dick, disguising themselves asSepoys, are able to rescue them. The party after an anxious time fallin with a body of English troops who are on the way to relieve Delhi.Dick and Ned are in Cawnpore when the Europeans are attacked, but theyescape by swimming instead of trusting themselves in boats. They takepart in the storming of Delhi, which had been taken by the natives, andin the relief of Lucknow. The end of the Mutiny finds the whole familyonce more united.