Produced by ellinora, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: She Gave a Quick, Grateful Sob.] Captain Lucy in the Home Sector Captain Lucy In The Home Sector By Aline Havard _Author of_ CAPTAIN LUCY IN FRANCE CAPTAIN LUCY AND LIEUTENANT BOB CAPTAIN LUCY’S FLYING ACE ILLUSTRATED BY Ralph P. Coleman The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia 1921 Introduction If the young people who read this last story of Lucy Gordon’s army life are disappointed that the end of the war does not bring her home to America they cannot possibly be as disappointed as she herself. She hoped that the war had really finished with the armistice but, like lots of us, she found that there was a great deal left to do that she had not counted upon. Peace was slow in coming, and the American army overseas had its hands as full trying to hasten it as all America on this side had, and still has, in trying to get back to peace-time ways. The tangle of affairs in war-swept Europe is more than Lucy can understand, though she sees a little of that great unrest, and catches a glimpse of its hidden dangers, even in the Home Sector. She does what she can to help, generously, and, though peace is not come and America is still distant, she and Bob and all the Gordon family find happiness together, and look forward with brave confidence to the glorious future of the dear country to which they will before long be homeward bound. Aline Havard. Contents I. Along the Rhine 9 II. Franz and His Family 28 III. Scouting on the Dwina 48 IV. The Silly Ass 69 V. From Russia into Germany 96 VI. The Mystery of the Forest 117 VII. Alan Takes a Hand 137 VIII. For Adelheid 159 IX. Bob and Elizabeth 182 X. A Letter to Franz 204 XI. With Larry’s Aid 226 XII. Unknown To History 249 XIII. Across the Channel 272 XIV. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 289 Illustrations