Under Fire For Servia
World's War Series, Volume 4
By Colonel James Fiske
Illustrated by E. A. FURMAN
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK
Copyright, 1915
By The Saalfield Publishing Co.
In a moment they were alone in the heavens, racing toward Servia.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. Dick Makes a Friend
CHAPTER II. A Surprising Offer
CHAPTER III. The Police Raid
CHAPTER IV. The Refuge
CHAPTER V. Under Fire
CHAPTER VI. Across the Save
CHAPTER VII. The Wounded Captain
CHAPTER VIII. A New Exploit
CHAPTER IX. Back to Semlin
CHAPTER X. A Daring Decision
CHAPTER XI. Craft against Craft
CHAPTER XII. In the Nick of Time
CHAPTER XIII. Face to Face
CHAPTER XIV. The Explosion
CHAPTER XV. The Tables Turned
CHAPTER XVI. Belgrade
CHAPTER XVII. Between the Lines
CHAPTER XVIII. The Flight
CHAPTER XIX. Hallo's Last Card
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Under Fire For Servia
CHAPTER I
DICK MAKES A FRIEND
The American consul in the small but highly important city of Semlin, inHungary, was a busy man. He was probably one of the first men in theworld who knew how great was the danger of war between Austria-Hungaryand the little kingdom of Servia after the assassination of the heir tothe Austrian throne in the summer of 1914. Now, since the Austrianultimatum to Servia had aroused all Europe to the peril, refugees haddoubled the consul's work. All the Americans in Servia, and there hadbeen quite a number there that summer, seemed to be pouring throughSemlin. Indeed, all the Americans gathered there from all the Balkanstates, and from Turkey as well, since the great trunk railway, thefamous Orient line, crossed the Save river at Belgrade, and Semlin wastherefore a border town, where in many cases passports had to beexamined.
So it was a hard matter for any stranger to see the consul in personunless he could prove that his business was of the greatest importance.His office force did all it could to give him the time he needed tocatch up with his duties, but on a sunny morning late in July ther