# Twenty-three and a half hours' leave

Author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958; Preston, May Wilson, 1873-1949 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68950

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Twenty-three+and+a+half+hours%27+leave+Rinehart&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Headquarters Troop were preparing to leave camp and move towards the East, where at an Atlantic port they would take ship and the third step toward saving democracy. Now the Headquarters Troop are a cavalry organisation, their particular function being, so far as the lay mind can grasp it, to form a circle round the general and keep shells from falling on him. Not that this close affiliation gives them any right to friendly relations with that aloof and powerful personage.

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/twenty-three-and-a-half-hours-leave-68950/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/twenty-three-and-a-half-hours-leave-68950/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/twenty-three-and-a-half-hours-leave-68950/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/twenty-three-and-a-half-hours-leave-68950/chapters/4/index.md)