Ruth of the U. S. A.

It was the day for great destinies. Germany was starving; yet German armies, stronger and better prepared than ever before, were about to annihilate the British and the French....

The man who had formed the small, distinct characters covering the paper of instructions had written in English; but while he was quite familiar with English script, it was evid...

The man who advanced from the group which had just entered the hotel, appeared to be about thirty years old; he was tall and sparely built and stooped very slightly as though in...

She followed him about the fringes of the groups pressing into the great front room where a stringed orchestra was starting the first, glorious notes of the _Marseillaise_; and...

The woman immediately moved away and left the conservatory. No one could have observed her speaking to Ruth except, perhaps, Hubert Lennon, who now had reappeared and, finding R...

There is a thrill upon awaking on your first morning on board a ship at sea which all the German U-boats under the ocean can scarcely increase. You may imagine all you please wh...

The deck floor just beyond her, where he had been, was gone; or rather--as she saw now through the smoke--it slanted steeply down like a chute into a chasm of indefinite depth f...

Fear--so Ruth was finding out--is a most complicated and perplexing sensation. What she had learned about fear, upon those infrequent occasions when causes of alarm approached t...

When the woman at Mrs. Corliss’ had disclosed herself as an enemy, Ruth had balanced the harm the woman might do to America against the harm she, herself, might do Germany, and...

To the world the great battle started with the German onslaught of the morning of that Thursday, the twenty-first of March; but to Ruth, the beginning was with the English guns-...

This knowledge came to Gerry through the rush and suck of the final yards of his three thousand foot fall; mechanically, automatically his hands were tugging at his controls, hi...

“Beyond, also, the road is open to fire,” Gerry informed them in French; and he directed them to proceed in little groups and by the fields away from the road.

Ruth turned, without asking more, and went into the room which had been hers, and shut herself in alone. She dared not inquire anything further, or permit anything more to be as...

Byrne followed her without comment, quite indifferent to their surroundings. When Ruth spoke to him again about the house, he replied vacantly; his mind was not here, but with C...

Ruth had told that truth, perforce, to George Byrne with the result that he had condemned her; and, when meeting this condemnation, she had said that Gerry must know that she wa...

The little Republic of Switzerland, always one of the most interesting spots in the world, became during this war a most amazing and anomalous country. Completely surrounded by...

“The first I may leave to your heated imagination; the other--it is quite pretty, I assure you. Particularly in the spring, with all nature budding to increase. I own it--in the...

Ruth could see dull eyes in a big, stupid face. The man said something with the inflection of a question. She could not make out the words, but obviously he was asking if anyone...

Ruth sank down upon the ground in a warm, sunny spot where the trees were more scant than they had been below. They were dense enough, however, to shield her from sight of anyon...

There was an axiom, taught in the training camps to give confidence to cadets, which said that when a pilot once gets his wheels squarely on the ground, he will not be killed, t...

Gerry’s feet thrust on the rudder bar, swinging his machine to meet them, while hot rills ran through his limbs, warming him against the chill of the night flight above the clou...

Ruth was working in a canteen with the American army now--or, rather, with one of the American armies. Her particular army occupied the bending front about the St. Mihiel salien...