90
XV HE WHO HAS EYES TO SEE 97
XVI THE WEAVER OF MERNON 103
XVII THE CLOUDS GATHER 112
XVIII IN THE RHINE 118
XIX TOM LOSES HIS FIRST CONFLICT WITH THE ENEMY 124
XX A NEW DANGER 131
XXI COMPANY 137
XXII BREAKFAST WITHOUT FOOD CARDS 141
XXIII THE CATSKILL VOLCANO IN ERUPTION 145
XXIV MILITARY ETIQUETTE 155
XXV TOM IN WONDERLAND 162
XXVI MAGIC 167
XXVII NONNENMATTWEIHER 174
XXVIII AN INVESTMENT 180
XXIX CAMOUFLAGE 184
XXX THE SPIRIT OF FRANCE 190
XXXI THE END OF THE TRAIL 196

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TOM SLADE WITH THE BOYS OVER THERE

CHAPTER I

THE HOME IN ALSACE

In the southwestern corner of the domains of Kaiser Bill, in a fair
district to which he has no more right than a highwayman has to his
victim's wallet, there is a quaint old house built of gray stone and
covered with a clinging vine.

In the good old days when Alsace was a part of France the old house
stood there and was the scene of joy and plenty. In these evil days when
Alsace belongs to Kaiser Bill, it stands there, its dim arbor and
pretty, flower-laden trellises in strange contrast to the lumbering army
wagons and ugly, threatening artillery which pass along the quiet road.

And if the prayers of its rightful owners are answered, it will still
stand there in the happy days to come when fair Alsace shall be a part
of France again and Kaiser Bill and all his clanking claptrap are gone
from it forever.

The village in which this pleasant homestead stands is close up under
the boundary of Rhenish Bavaria, or Germany proper (or improper), and in
the happy days when Alsace was a part of France it had been known as
Leteur, after the French family which for generations had lived in the
old gray house.

But long before Kaiser Bill knocked down Rheims Cathedral and
black-jacked Belgium and sank the Lusitania, he changed the name of this
old French village to Dundgardt, showing that ev