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Ruth crouched beside Gerry, and shot through the wreckage at the circling German plane
Ruth of the U. S. A.
By Edwin Balmer
Illustrated by Harold H. Betts
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1919
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1919
Copyright
The Tribune Company
1918
Published March, 1919
Copyrighted in Great Britain
W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO
TO
THE MEMORY OF
My father
AN ENGLISHMAN AND AN
AMERICAN
CONTENTS
IA Beggar and a Passport
IIThe Wand of War
IIIThe New Rôle
IVAt Mrs. Corliss’
V“You’re Not Like Anyone Else”
VI“We’re Fighting”
VII“One of Our Own!”
VIIIFrance
IXTo Picardy
XThe Great Attack
XIThe Resistance
XII“How Could This Happen?”
XIIIByrne Arrives
XIVFull Confession
XVGerry’s Problem
XVIInto Germany
XVIIThe Road to Lauengratz
XVIIIThe Message in Cipher
XIXThe Underground Railway
XXAn Officers’ Prison
XXIThe Raid on the Schloss
XXII“The War’s Over”
ILLUSTRATIONS
Ruth crouched beside Gerry, and shot through the wreckage at the circling German plane
She looked away, half expecting the sound of the music, and the roses, and palms, and Gerry Hull would vanish
Gerry was there at the door of her cell; another man was with him; a friend