Produced by Kevin Handy, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net The Riverside Library High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France By JAMES NORMAN HALL [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1917 AND 1918, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY JAMES NORMAN HALL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published June, 1918_ The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. TO SERGENT-PILOTE DOUGLAS MACMONAGLE KILLED IN COMBAT NEAR VERDUN SEPTEMBER 25, 1917 [Illustration: THE AUTHOR] Contents I. THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS 1 II. PENGUINS 24 III. BY THE ROUTE OF THE AIR 47 IV. AT G. D. E. 79 V. OUR FIRST PATROL 107 VI. A BALLOON ATTACK 144 VII. BROUGHT DOWN 167 VIII. ONE HUNDRED HOURS 182 IX. "LONELY AS A CLOUD" 200 X. "MAIS OUI, MON VIEUX!" 209 XI. THE CAMOUFLAGED COWS 216 XII. CAFARD 226 LETTER FROM A GERMAN PRISON CAMP 233 HIGH ADVENTURE I THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS It was on a cool, starlit evening, early in September, 1916, that I first met Drew of Massachusetts, and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Americaine. We had sailed from New York by the same boat, had made our applications for enlistment in the Foreign Legion on the same day, without being aware of each other's existence; and in Paris, while waiting for our papers, we had gone, every evening, for dinner, to the same large and gloomy-looking restaurant in the neighborhood of the Seine.