Two American Boys with the Allied ArmiesCrockett, Sherman
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Two American Boys with the Allied Armies
Crockett, Sherman
World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
“From the cupola of a chateau that had been pillaged by the German
army,” explained Jack, “we saw a detachment of Uhlans, that had
become caught back of the British lines, being hotly pursued by some
cavalrymen. Two were shot, and fell alongside the road. Afterwards we
came on one of them who was badly wounded.”
“You stopped and assisted him, I am sure,” she said, quickly. “It would
be just like such gallant boys. Besides, this is no affair of yours,
and I can see how German interests appeal partly to you, even though
you may be at heart on the side of the Allies. What do you want me to
do? Tell me quickly, please.”
Jack described how they had left the poor wounded Uhlan near the
mansion she was sure to notice on the way to the field hospital for a
load of the wounded.
“On the way back,” said Amos, “if by any means you can crowd just one
more in your ambulance, will you take him along? I ask this favor
partly because he is our patient, and our professional interest has
been aroused.”
The earnestness of the two boys had its influence upon the English
nurse.
“I promise you to do the best I can,” she told them, as she gave Jack
and then Amos her little hand in parting. “It is partly because I am
more than curious to see if you are as much at home in binding up the
wounds of men as you seem to be at making a punctured tire whole.
Good-bye! The best of luck follow your efforts to find your brother
Frank. If I see him I shall surely tell him that you have come all the
way over here from your land of peace to discover him.”
The ambulance went hurrying along the road, and the two boys had no
idea they would ever see the red-cheeked English nurse again. They felt
that they had been repaid ten times over because of the little trouble
taken to relieve those in trouble.
“It certainly beats the Dutch how things turn out,” Amos was saying as
they once more started to trudge along, with their backs for the most
part toward the region where the big guns growled, and the tumult of
battle was borne to their ears from time to time with the rising and
falling of the wind.
“We’ve got little to complain of, for a fact,” added Jack. “It all goes
to prove that a good act is never thrown away. We didn’t expect to be
rewarded in any way when we stopped to patch up that tire; yet see how
it came out.”
“Yes,” added Amos, earnestly, “after this I’ll never doubt that old
saying, for it’s been proved over and over again. But I’d give a heap
to know whether Frank was one of those air pilots we saw wheeling and
dodging about when the battle was going on. And Jack, the scent is
getting warmer all the time. We’ll find Frank yet!”
CHAPTER XVI. FIGURING IT ALL OUT.
If other reinforcements were hurrying up to take their places on
the firing line, the boys did not happen to meet them on this road.
It seemed to be given over almost entirely to vehicles of every
description speeding forward to carry off the bleeding forms of those
whose lives might yet be saved.
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