E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) 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