Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: THE CANADIANS WERE MASTERFUL FIGHTERS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE WAR. (The Canadians at Vimy Ridge)] OVER THERE WITH THE CANADIANS AT VIMY RIDGE _By_ CAPT. GEORGE H. RALPHSON Author of OVER THERE WITH PERSHING’S HEROES AT CANTIGNY, OVER THERE WITH THE DOUGHBOYS AT ST. MIHIEL, OVER THERE WITH THE MARINES AT CHATEAU THIERRY M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK Copyright, 1919 M. A. DONOHUE & CO. CHICAGO *CONTENTS* CHAPTER I Shells and Minnenwerfer II Irving’s Idea III In No Man’s Land IV "Kamerad!" V The Turtle Is Wounded VI A Little History VII Tourtelle Apologizes VIII Cubist Art IX Bob’s Letter X Dots and Dashes XI Irving Tells the Sergeant XII Quizzing a Spy XIII Tourtelle Admits XIV Tourtelle’s Story XV Irving an Orderly XVI A Startling Announcement XVII Parachute Practice XVIII Studying to Be a Spy XIX Last Preparations XX "Second Looie Ellis" XXI The Blowing Up of Vimy Ridge XXII Behind the German Lines XXIII Off for Berlin XXIV In Berlin XXV The Reading of the Cryptogram XXVI Followed XXVII The Spy’s Decision XXVIII Making Progress with the Baron XXIX Orders for Money and Clothes XXX Before Breakfast XXXI At Work in the Spy Office XXXII A Startling Recognition XXXIII A Surprising Offer XXXIV Skin Grafting XXXV The Tapping on the Window XXXVI A Revelation XXXVII The Submarines XXXVIII "Kamerad!" Again XXXIX "Accidents Will Happen" *Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge* *CHAPTER I* *SHELLS AND MINNENWERFER* "Look out! There she comes." These words were whispered, for it would have been a serious military offense if the speaker had lifted his voice to a resonant tone in addressing his companion. Both were in khaki uniform, and had helmets on their heads. They had been crouching in a camouflaged pit out in No Man’s Land in the Vimy Ridge sector of the western battle front in Prance. It was dusk of evening, a mist-laden dusk, quite as serviceable for secret movements as the darkness under a clear sky. One could not see an object as large as a man twenty yards away because of the fog.