The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Girl from Alsace, by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Title: The Girl from Alsace

A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade

Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson

Release Date: April 21, 2011 [eBook #35926]

Language: English

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THE GIRL FROM ALSACE

A ROMANCE OF THE GREAT WAR

Originally Published under the title of
LITTLE COMRADE

BY BURTON E. STEVENSON

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1914.
BY BURTON E. STEVENSON

Copyright, 1915.
BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

Published March, 1915

THERE WAS SOMETHING SINISTER AND THREATENING ABOUT THOSE ROOFLESS BLACKENED WALLS.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The Story of THE GIRL FROM ALSACE

The book was originally published under the title of Little Comrade. It has been changed to The Girl from Alsace, as the publishers considered that name as better descriptive of the character of the story. The dramatic elements of the story led to its being put in play form, and it became the theatrical success entitled Arms and the Girl, with Fay Bainter and Cyril Scott playing the leading rôles. It has also been produced as a photo-play by the World Film Company under the title On Dangerous Ground, featuring Carlyle Blackwell and Gail Kane, and is being widely shown throughout the country.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. The Thirty-first of July
CHAPTER II. The First Rumblings
CHAPTER III. "State of War"
CHAPTER IV. The Mystery of the Satin Slippers
CHAPTER V. One Way to Acquire a Wife
CHAPTER VI. The Snare
CHAPTER VII. In the Trap
CHAPTER VIII. Presto! Change!
CHAPTER IX. The Frontier
CHAPTER X. Fortune Frowns
CHAPTER XI. The Night Attack
CHAPTER XII. An Army in Action
CHAPTER XIII. The Passage of the Meuse
CHAPTER XIV. The Last Dash
CHAPTER XV. Disaster
CHAPTER XVI. A Trust Fulfilled
CHAPTER XVII. "Little Comrade"

ZANE GREY'S NOVELS
JACK LONDON'S NOVELS

THE GIRL FROM ALSACE

CHAPTER I

THE THIRTY-FIRST OF JULY

"Let us have coffee on the terrace," Bloem suggested, and, as his companion nodded, lifted a finger to the waiter and gave the order.

Both were a little sad, for this was their last meal together. Though they had known each other less than a fortnight, they had become fast friends. They had been thrown together by chance at the Surgical congress at Vienna, where Bloem, finding the American's German lame and halting, had constituted himself a sort of interpreter, and Stewart had reciprocated by polishing away some of the roughnesses and Teutonic involutions of Bloem's formal English.

When the congress ended, they had journeyed back together in leisurely fashion through Germany, spending a day in medieval Nuremberg, another in odorous Würzburg, and a