Chapter I: Front Matter

Captain Lucy in the Home Sector

Captain Lucy In The Home Sector

By

Aline Havard

_Author of_

CAPTAIN LUCY IN FRANCE

CAPTAIN LUCY AND LIEUTENANT BOB

CAPTAIN LUCY’S FLYING ACE

ILLUSTRATED BY

Ralph P. Coleman

The Penn Publishing Company
Philadelphia
1921

Introduction

If the young people who read this last story of Lucy Gordon’s army life are disappointed that the end of the war does not bring her home to America they cannot possibly be as disappointed as she herself. She hoped that the war had really finished with the armistice but, like lots of us, she found that there was a great deal left to do that she had not counted upon. Peace was slow in coming, and the American army overseas had its hands as full trying to hasten it as all America on this side had, and still has, in trying to get back to peace-time ways.

The tangle of affairs in war-swept Europe is more than Lucy can understand, though she sees a little of that great unrest, and catches a glimpse of its hidden dangers, even in the Home Sector.

She does what she can to help, generously, and, though peace is not come and America is still distant, she and Bob and all the Gordon family find happiness together, and look forward with brave confidence to the glorious future of the dear country to which they will before long be homeward bound.

Aline Havard.

Contents

I. Along the Rhine 9

II. Franz and His Family 28

III. Scouting on the Dwina 48

IV. The Silly Ass 69

V. From Russia into Germany 96

VI. The Mystery of the Forest 117

VII. Alan Takes a Hand 137

VIII. For Adelheid 159

IX. Bob and Elizabeth 182

X. A Letter to Franz 204

XI. With Larry’s Aid 226

XII. Unknown To History 249

XIII. Across the Channel 272

XIV. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 289

Illustrations

She Gave a Quick, Grateful Sob _Frontispiece_

He Waved the Flaming Streamers About His
Head 65

Larry Stood With Lucy by the Door 127

Lucy Read the Few Lines of German 217

“Here She Is,” Bob Answered 304