Category: Novels

Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge

I Shells and Minnenwerfer II Irving's Idea III In No Man's Land IV "Kamerad!" V The Turtle Is Wounded VI A Little History VII Tourtelle Apologizes VIII Cubist Art IX Bob's Letter X Dots and Dashes XI Irving Tells the Sergeant XII Quizzing a Spy XIII Tourtelle Admits XIV Tourte...

Chapters

1. Part 1

I Shells and Minnenwerfer II Irving's Idea III In No Man's Land IV "Kamerad!" V The Turtle Is Wounded VI A Little History VII Tourtelle Apologizes VIII Cubist Art IX Bob's Lette...

2. Part 2

The boy with the club quickened his steps silently, for he was skilled with the "moccasin tread" even on hobnails. Moreover, the softness of the wet earth was in his favor. In a...

3. Part 3

The patient was not yet unconscious, although the nurse was dropping ether into the mask covering his mouth and nose. In a low dreamy voice he answered the question thus:

4. Part 4

"It seems to me those dots and dashes explain Tourtelle's anxiety to keep that tattooing on his arm," the boy mused. "Now, if he's a spy, he was putting over just a clever 'con...

5. Part 5

The commander of the regiment received the visitors in his elaborately furnished living room, bedroom and dining room. Lieut. Osborne began at once a rapid account of the interv...

6. Part 6

By the time the spy-student had "completed his course of study" the material, instruments, and artist were ready for the pictorial operation. The instruments had been supplied b...

7. Part 7

The "short time" was more than two hours, however. The brigadier general had been napping. Ordinarily his night repose might fittingly have been called sleep, but the taking of...

8. Part 8

Lieut. Vollmer did not return with Irving to the hotel, but gave him a limp handshake out on the sidewalk, tossed a careless "aufwiedersehn" at him and sauntered away. The deser...

9. Part 9

After leaving the quartermaster's supply depot, Irving visited a haberdashery and bought several suits of underwear, shirts, collars, and socks, and then returned to the hotel....

10. Part 10

"What do you think about it?" asked the surgeon. "You ought to know more about it than I do. But I'll tell you what my frank and unscientific opinion in the matter is."

11. Part 11

All three captains seemed to be of like mind, for all three U-boats took the same course and ran up close to the crowded lifeboats. Several officers and members of the crew of e...