of Honor

CONTENTS

I. An Old House 7
II. Explanations 24
III. "A Long Time Going Over There" 39
IV. Chaperoning the Chaperon 47
V. The Confession 66
VI. A French Farm House on the Field of Honor 78
VII. Becoming Adjusted 98
VIII. The Old Chateau 113
IX. A Mystery 126
X. Breakers Ahead 138
XI. The Return 154
XII. Other Days and Other Ways 165
XIII. A Departure and an Arrival 176
XIV. A Warning 193
XV. The Discovery 205
XVI. An Unexpected Shelter 223
XVII. Two Officers 233
XVIII. The Expected Happens 254
XIX. The Field of Honor 263

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Sally and Lieutenant Fleury were Walking Side By
Side away from the Farm House Frontispiece
Have You Nothing Better to do than Steal? 14
The Figure Was that of a Young Soldier 122
She and Old Jean Took an Entirely Opposite
Direction 208

THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE FIELD OF HONOR

CHAPTER I

AN OLD HOUSE

There are certain old houses in New York City built of rose-colored
brick and white stone which face Washington Square.

On this morning in early winter a light snow covered the ground and
clung to the bare branches of the shrubs and trees.

In a drawing-room of one of the old houses a young girl was moving
quietly about at work. She was alone and the room was almost entirely
dismantled, the pictures having been taken down from the walls, the
decorations stored away and the furniture protected by linen covers.

The girl herself was wearing an odd costume, a long frock made like a
peasant's smock with an insignia of two crossed logs and a flame
embroidered upon one