THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND THE “DO SOMETHING” BOOKS BY HELEN BEECHER LONG JANICE DAY THE TESTING OF JANICE DAY HOW JANICE DAY WON THE MISSION OF JANICE DAY 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated Price per volume, $1.25 net GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY NEW YORK [Illustration: “I leave you, Miss Clayton, to keep things straight here!” (_See Page 138_)] THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND BY HELEN BEECHER LONG Author of The “Janice Day” Books ILLUSTRATED BY R. EMMETT OWEN GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY _All rights reserved_ PRINTED IN U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I “So Perfectly Capable” 11 II A Comparison 22 III “Dogfennel” 30 IV The Skinners 41 V The Dream of a Star 53 VI Two Good-byes 66 VII Leading Up to a Climax 77 VIII A Puzzling Situation 89 IX The Duty Devolves 98 X Love and Business 107 XI War Is Declared 121 XII The Image He Took Away 129 XIII The Awakening 140 XIV Benway’s Discovery 152 XV From “Over There” 164 XVI The Clouds Thicken 175 XVII A Rendezvous With Death 185 XVIII The Wrath of the Hun 198 XIX Uncertainties 205 XX So Far Away! 216 XXI The Burden 224 XXII The Fight 231 XXIII Comparisons 241 XXIV Opening the Way 248 XXV Compensation 259 XXVI His Awakening 265 ILLUSTRATIONS “I leave you, Miss Clayton, to keep things straight here!” (_See Page 138_) _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE He did fire--futilely, perhaps--as the great car circled clumsily above the spot (_See Page 201_) 200 “I nominate her as assistant manager, to hold the job till Frank Barton comes back!” (_See Page 227_) 227 “You have been in my thoughts continually--the girl I left behind” (_See Page 268_) 268 THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND CHAPTER I “SO PERFECTLY CAPABLE”