Category: Historical Novels

Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross; Or, Doing Her Best for Uncle Sam

Ruth Fielding looked up from the box she was packing for the local Red Cross chapter, and, almost horrified, gazed into the black eyes of the girl who confronted her.

Chapters

25. CHAPTER XXV--Quite Satisfactory

Ruth said nothing to Monsieur Lafrane, although she was startled. He had had no idea, then, of taking her to the Dupay farm. She was somewhat relieved by this discovery, althoug...

9. CHAPTER IX--TOM SAILS, AND SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS

There have been not a few similar messages put on the telegraph wires and received by anxious parents during these months since America has really got into the World War.

14. CHAPTER XIV--A CHANGE OF BASE

Ruth's daily tasks did not often bring her into contact with the chief of her unit. This was a very large hospital--one of the most extensive base hospitals in France. There wer...

23. CHAPTER XXIII--RUTH DOES HER DUTY

The query that came sharply to Ruth Fielding's mind was: Without his blanket and off his leash, what would Bubu, the greyhound, look like in the gloaming? The next moment the ta...

6. CHAPTER VI--THE PATRIOTISM OF THE PURSE

While she was yet at boarding school at Briarwood Hall Ruth had been successful in writing a scenario for the Alectrion Film Corporation. This is told of in "Ruth Fielding in Mo...

21. CHAPTER XXI--AGAIN THE WERWOLF

Ruth Fielding felt as though she needed a cup of tea more than she ever had before in her life. And Clare Biggars had her own tea service in her room at the pension. Ruth had in...

4. CHAPTER IV--"CAN A POILU LOVE A FAT GIRL?

The shocked silence continued for no more than a minute. Mrs. Mantel was a quick-witted woman, if she was nothing else commendable. But every member of the Ladies' Aid Society k...

11. Chapter XI--SAID IN GERMAN

"Oh, my pretty! Oh, my pretty!" sighed Aunt Alvirah Boggs. "It seems as though this life is just made up of partings. You ain't no more to home than you're off again. And how do...

20. CHAPTER XX--MANY THINGS HAPPEN

Ruth reached the farmhouse just as the family was sitting down to breakfast. The house and outbuildings of the Dupays were all connected, as is the way in this part of France. N...

12. CHAPTER XII--THROUGH DANGEROUS WATERS

There were a number of people aboard ship whom Ruth Fielding had not met, of course; some whom she had not even seen. And this was not to be wondered at, for the feminine member...

15. CHAPTER XV--NEW WORK

The prefect of police at Lyse was quite right. Clair was within sound of the big guns. Indeed, Ruth became aware of their steady monotone long before the rattling car reached it...

17. CHAPTER XVII--AT THE GATEWAY OF THE CHATEAU

Ruth heard from Clare Biggars and the other girls at the Lyse Hospital on several occasions; but little was said in any of their letters regarding Mrs. Mantel, and, of course, n...

13. CHAPTER XIII--THE NEW CHIEF

If the man calling himself Professor Perry was really Legrand, and the Italian chef, Signor Aristo the lame man, was he who had been known as Mr. José at the Robinsburg Red Cros...

1. CHAPTER I--UNCLE JABEZ IS EXCITED

Ruth Fielding looked up from the box she was packing for the local Red Cross chapter, and, almost horrified, gazed into the black eyes of the girl who confronted her.

8. CHAPTER VIII--THE NEAREST DUTY

The county drive for Red Cross funds had been a great success; and many people declared that Ruth's work had been that which had told the most in the effort. Uncle Jabez inspire...

2. CHAPTER II--THE CALL OF THE DRUM

There was a flash following the explosion, and Uncle Jabez staggered back from the doorway, his arm across his eyes, while the gun dropped with a crash to the porch. The girls,...

18. CHAPTER XVIII--SHOCKING NEWS

From both Helen and Jennie letters reached the girl of the Red Mill quite frequently. Ruth saw that always her correspondence was opened and read by the censor; but that was the...

3. CHAPTER III--THE WOMAN IN BLACK

"Do you mean to say," demanded Helen Cameron, with some anger, "that they have no interest in the war, or in our boys who will soon begin to go over there? Impossible!"

19. CHAPTER XIX--AT THE WAYSIDE CROSS

The early hours of that morning were the most tedious that Ruth Fielding ever had experienced. She was tied here to the convalescent ward of the Clair Hospital, while her every...

7. CHAPTER VII--ON THE WAY

Tom Cameron came home on a furlough from the officers' training camp the day that the boys of the first draft departed from Cheslow. It stabbed the hearts of many mothers and fa...

16. CHAPTER XVI--THE DAYS ROLL BY

Ruth Fielding had already become inured to the sights and sounds of hospital life at Lyse, and to its work as well. Of course she was not under the physical strain that the Red...

10. CHAPTER X--SUSPICIONS

There was a patter of feet overhead and racing down the stairway came half a dozen frightened people. They had been aroused by Mr. Mayo's shout, and they knew that if the flames...

24. CHAPTER XXIV--A PARTIAL EXPOSURE

It was when Ruth was going off duty for the day that the matron sent for her to come to the office before going to her own cell, as the tiny immaculate little rooms were called...

22. CHAPTER XXII--THE COUNTESS AND HER DOG

RUTH FIELDING had almost instantly identified the swiftly moving object in the road as the same that she had seen weeks before while riding with Charlie Bragg toward Clair. And...

5. CHAPTER V--"THE BOYS OF THE DRAFT

Helen's changed attitude did not surprise her chum much. Ruth was quite used to Helen's vagaries. The latter was very apt to declare against a course of action, for herself or h...