Chapter I: Front Matter

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CAPTAIN LUCY

IN FRANCE

BY

ALINE HAVARD

_Author of_

“CAPTAIN LUCY AND LIEUTENANT BOB”

_Illustrated by_

RALPH P. COLEMAN

PHILADELPHIA

THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
1919

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COPYRIGHT
1919 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

Captain Lucy in France

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Introduction

=TO= those who made friends with Lucy Gordon on Governor’s Island it will seem a great change to find her, in this second story, so far away from home. She is only one of thousands, though, to whom a few months of the great war brought more changes than they ever thought could be crowded into a lifetime.

Lucy can look back over less than a year to her old life at the army post in New York Harbor before the Colonel was ordered overseas. To that brief summer time when the Gordon family was united during her brother Bob’s West Point graduation leave, and to the dark days of the winter of 1917 when Bob was in a German prison.

Even then Lucy never lost hope, and her brave confidence was gloriously rewarded with Bob’s freedom. But in those dreadful weeks of waiting she outgrew her childhood, as though even in that pleasant home on Governor’s Island she knew that peace and content could never come back to her and to those she loved until America had fired her final shot at Germany’s crumbling lines.

She could not guess what lay before her,—what old friends she was to meet again in strange new places. Yet she had resolved, even before she had any hope of crossing to the other side, that, come what might, she would serve in her own way as steadfastly as her father served, as valiantly as Bob.

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Contents

CHAP. PAGE
I. THE SUMMONS 9

II. ON THE ALLIED FRONT 34

III. A GLIMPSE OF BOB 56

IV. THE FORTUNE OF WAR 82

V. THE ENGLISH PRISONER 97

VI. A GERMAN ALLY 115

VII. BOB GORDON AND CAPTAIN BEATTIE 141

VIII. A LITTLE FRENCH HEROINE 170

IX. THE FIGHT OVER ARGENTON 194

X. THE PLAN OF THE DEFENSES 216

XI. A CHANCE IN A THOUSAND 235

XII. MRS. GORDON AND BOB 261

XIII. THE PRICE OF VICTORY 281

XIV. A DESPERATE RESOLVE 302

XV. ACROSS THE LINES 326

XVI. THE YANKS ARE COMING 356

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Illustrations

PAGE
“THOSE ARE OUR GUNS THAT SOUND SO CLOSE” _Frontispiece_

“THIS MEADOW IS THE BEST LANDING-PLACE” 77

“WHO’S THAT WITH YOU?” 145

“WHAT’S YOUR BUSINESS HERE?” 253

SHE APPROACHED THE CHIMNEY 336

Captain Lucy in France

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Captain Lucy in France