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
“I never dreamed of anything so terrible as this. What brutes!”
“We knew that before, dear. Time is precious. No telling what they may
not be up to next. The propaganda plan is in full swing. While I do
not believe the uprising will amount to much, it will at least cause
the loss of some American lives, but if we save only one American life
we shall have justified our existence. I shall probably see Captain
Boucher some time to-day and plan for him to verify all that I have
told you, by the evidence of his own ears.”
“What about Miss Marshall? Do you believe she is in this plot?”
“The evidence of my eyes and ears tells me that she is, that she is a
German spy, but my woman’s intuition is directly the opposite. If one
were guided by intuitions one would make fewer mistakes. The trouble is
that we fight that intuition and try to reason with it. I am a great
believer in impressions that come to the human mind, apparently out
of nowhere. I know that had I followed mine I should have been better
off. In a way it is an advantage to be blind and deaf and dumb,” she
added smilingly, while Miss Briggs regarded her with a curious light
in her eyes. “I wish I might get in communication with the captain
without the necessity of going to headquarters. I suspect that we are
being watched, at least that I am. Keep your eyes open to-day, Elfreda.
That’s all for now.”
Grace rose and the two girls proceeded to the canteen, which they
opened and began preparing for the day’s work. They knew that the
supervisor would not arrive until late in the forenoon, if then, for
she was, as a rule, a late sleeper. They had not been there long before
Grace discovered the grinning face of Won Lue at the door. She nodded
to him to enter.
“You savvy Missie Slyth?” he asked, bowing and smirking.
“Not yet, Won.”
“You savvy Yat Sen?” he next questioned, eyeing her shrewdly.
Grace nodded.
“I want you to take a letter to headquarters for me. You savvy no one
must know?”
“Me savvy plenty, la.”
Grace nodded and penciled a line to the Intelligence officer as follows:
“Important that I see you to-day. Do not wish to go to headquarters.
Can you arrange to meet me elsewhere? Answer by messenger. He is
perfectly reliable, but send no verbal messages, please.
“G. G.”
The answer came back in about an hour, the captain directing her to
meet him accidentally on the river front where they met before. The
hour was to be two o’clock. Grace informed Miss Briggs, directing her
to say, in case Madame should come in and inquire for her, that she had
gone for a walk, but would return soon. Grace set out a few minutes
before the hour named and went by a roundabout way to the river front,
strolling along aimlessly, hesitating now and then as if uncertain
where she had better go.
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