Grace Harlowe with the American Army on the RhineChase, Josephine
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Grace Harlowe with the American Army on the Rhine
Chase, Josephine
Rhine River -- Juvenile fiction; War stories; World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
“No!” exploded Captain Boucher. “Besides, there is no place for a
woman with her lack of brains in this army. You ought to have the
Congressional Medal, but we of the Intelligence Service not only work
in the dark, but must be content to be retiring heroes destined to
blush unseen in the shadows, while the other fellows are the objects of
the world’s acclaim. Your house is under guard, but you are at liberty
to return there and make yourselves at home. It has been decided to
keep a guard there so long as you ladies occupy the house. Mrs. Smythe
has been removed to other lodgings. It will not be necessary for you to
see her, and I prefer that you do not report for duty until after her
departure. Thank you. You are a clever woman, Mrs. Gray. General Gordon
will see to it that you have proper recognition in reports.”
Both German spies were tried within a few days before a military
tribunal and sentenced to prison. Grace took charge of the welfare work
on the second day after their arrest, Mrs. Smythe then being well on
her way toward Brest, whence she was booked for passage to America, a
disgraced and unhappy woman, but the Overton girl found no joy in the
downfall of her enemy. Rather was she deeply depressed over it, and
wished that she might have been able to do something to soften the
blow, but the supervisor had made that impossible.
Grace’s mind, however, was at once filled with other affairs, and
especially in what her husband wrote to her. He was writing from Paris,
which city he was leaving that very day, he having been ordered to
Russia on military duty.
Now that Tom Gray had left Europe, Grace began to long for home,
but it was a little more than a month later that “Captain” Grace
finally severed her connection with the army and bidding good-bye to
her friends, entrained for Paris. She and most of the Overton Unit,
including Yvonne and the yellow cat, sailed for America and Home, early
in the following week.
Grace had passed through experiences on the western front such as
few women could boast of; she had won honors, she had made friends
in high places, but it was the same Grace Harlowe, gentle, sweet,
lovable, unsullied by the scenes through which she had passed, that
was returning to the “House Behind the World,” where she hoped to
spend many happy, peaceful years with her much loved husband and her
new-found daughter Yvonne.
The further adventures of Grace and the splendid girls of the Overton
College Unit will be found in a following volume, entitled, “GRACE
HARLOWE’S OVERLAND RIDERS ON THE OLD APACHE TRAIL.”
THE END
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