CAPTAIN LUCY AND LIEUTENANT BOB BY ALINE HAVARD

AUTHOR OF

CAPTAIN LUCY IN FRANCE

Illustrated by

RALPH P. COLEMAN

PHILADELPHIA

THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

1920

Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob

Introduction

Some of the girls who read this first story of Lucy Gordon's army life have spent their lives on army posts as well as she, and perhaps have even lived on Governor's Island. A good many others, though, have only visited posts, and have never felt that they knew much about the life of army girls, except that it was full of sudden changes. But in this last year the American army has grown very real and absorbing to every girl in America. Not one of them but has become an army girl in spirit, with some strong tie to bind her to our posts, to our training camps, or to our fighters on the Western Front.

The war is as yet only beginning for Lucy Gordon, and the old, pleasant times are just ending, but, like every other girl in America, she is trying hard to find the courage and cheerfulness which have never yet been wanting in our Service and which are going to help America to win.

In "Captain Lucy in France" she sees the perilous "Front" for herself, and has a small part in some great events.

Aline Havard.

Contents

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I. Marian Arrives 9

II. Parade 23

III. The Mystery of the Twenty-Eighth 39

IV. Lieutenant Bob 59

V. My Orders Have Come 79

VI. Good-Byes 92

VII. A Tough Job 107

VIII. Over the Trenches 122

IX. Behind the Enemy's Lines 141

X. A Gust of Wind 164

XI. First Aid 184

XII. Locked Doors 205

XIII. Come in, Comrade! 226

XIV. A Letter from London 248

XV. One Chance Out of Fifty 267

XVI. The Flying Man 285

XVII. Over the Frontier 302

XVIII. Captain Lucy 322

Illustrations

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"Is the Twenty-Eighth Going Over This Week" Frontispiece

"My Orders Have Come" 86

"You May Help the Allies to Victory" 135

"Letter, Please", Said a Timid Voice 196

"I Did Not Know Where I Should Land" 290

Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob