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Title: Ruth Fielding at the War Front
or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier

Author: Alice B. Emerson

Release Date: March 16, 2007 [EBook #20834]

Language: English

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Ruth Fielding

At the War Front

OR

THE HUNT FOR

THE LOST SOLDIER

BY

ALICE B. EMERSON

AUTHOR OF "RUTH FIELDING OF THE RED MILL," "RUTH FIELDING IN THE
SADDLE," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1918, by

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

RUTH FIELDING AT THE WAR FRONT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. TO GET ACQUAINTED
II. AT THE CHATEAU
III. A PERILOUS PROJECT
IV. UNDER FIRE
V. MOTHER GERVAISE
VI. THE MYSTERY
VII. WHERE IS TOM CAMERON?
VIII. THE CHOCOLATE PEDDLER
IX. COT 24--HUT H
X. DEVOURING SUSPICION
XI. THE FLYING MAN
XII. AUNT ABELARD
XIII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
XIV. MORE SACRIFICES THAN ONE
XV. BUBU
XVI. THE HOLLOW TOOTH
XVII. THE WORST IS TOLD
XVIII. BEARING THE BURDEN
XIX. ADVENTURE
XX. ON THE RAW EDGE OF NO MAN'S LAND
XXI. A NIGHT TO BE REMEMBERED
XXII. THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES
XXIII. THE GARDENER'S COT
XXIV. CAPT. VON BRENNER'S SISTER
XXV. BACK AGAIN

RUTH FIELDING AT THE WAR FRONT

CHAPTER I

TO GET ACQUAINTED

It was a midwinter day, yet the air was balmy. The trees were
bare-limbed but with a haze clothing them in the distance that seemed
almost that of returning verdure. The grass, even in mid-winter,
showed green. A bird sang lustily in the hedge.

Up the grassy lane walked a girl in the costume of the active Red Cross
worker--an intelligent looking girl with a face that, although perhaps
not perfect in form, was possessed of an expression that was alluring.

Neither observant man nor woman would have passed her, even in a crowd,
without a second glance. There was a cheerful