Chapter I: Front Matter

Grace Harlowe with the American Army on the Rhine

Grace Harlowe with the
American Army on the Rhine

By
JESSIE GRAHAM FLOWER, A.M.

Author of The Grace Harlowe High School Series, The Grace Harlowe
College Girls Series, Grace Harlowe’s Return to Overton Campus,
Grace Harlowe’s Problem, Grace Harlowe’s Golden Summer,
Grace Harlowe Overseas, Grace Harlowe with the Red
Cross in France, Grace Harlowe with the Marines at
Chateau Thierry, Grace Harlowe with the U. S.
Troops in the Argonne, Grace Harlowe with the
Yankee Shock Boys at St. Quentin,
etc., etc.

Illustrated

PHILADELPHIA
HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

COPYRIGHTED, 1920, BY
HOWARD E. ALTEMUS

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I--ON THE MARCH TO THE RHINE 11
Grace Harlowe looks for Hun treachery. “What I
have seen has chilled my very soul.” The supervisor
gives her orders. Elfreda sees a danger signal. “For
the love of Heaven, stop it!” A mighty crash and a
plunge into the river.

CHAPTER II--“GRACE HARLOWE, TROUBLE-MAKER” 25
Mrs. Chadsey Smythe gets a chilly bath. “Arrest
that woman!” Won Lue makes his bow. Grace gets
a warning. Overton girls billeted in a cellar.
Keeping house under difficulties. Summoned before
a superior officer.

CHAPTER III--THE IRON HAND 38
Grace resents an imputation on her honor. A serious
accusation. “The woman is an impertinent creature!”
“Captain” Grace is accused of trying to
drown her superior. Grace Harlowe’s dismissal
demanded. The Overton girl stands on her rights.

CHAPTER IV--A TIMELY MEETING 44
The mystery of three birds. J. Elfreda comes to
grief. Grace meets her friend the general. How
“Captain” Grace got even. The supervisor hears
some unpleasant truths. “Ridiculous!” exclaims
General Gordon.

CHAPTER V--GRACE WINS AND IS SORRY 55
“I don’t know what you are talking about, but I
agree with you.” Overton girls have supper behind
a smoke screen. An obliging Chinaman. Grace lays
down the law to Mrs. Smythe. “My orders are that
you get out of my sight instantly!”

CHAPTER VI--MESSING WITH A BRIGADIER 64
Overton girls left to walk. A grilling hike. The
general is not deceived. An invitation to visit
cloudland. “Captain” Grace gives the intelligence
officer some real intelligence. “Watch the skies
in the early morning.”

CHAPTER VII--OFFICERS GET A SHOCK 76
Grace tells of the flights of enemy war pigeons.
Captain Boucher asks for the Overton girl’s
assistance. Army officers prove charming hosts.
The Chinaman is on guard. “Captain” Grace uses a
cobblestone for a door-knocker. Military police
come up on a run.

CHAPTER VIII--HUNLAND IS REACHED AT LAST 86
“Captain” Grace barred from her billets. A soldier
policeman offers to break in the door. The girls
make their beds in an army truck. Leading a gypsy
life. Overton women placed under arrest. Grace and
Elfreda smash the door of their prison.

CHAPTER IX--AN IRATE OFFICER 97
On the enemy’s threshhold. The intelligence captain
smooths the way. Grace cooks mess at headquarters.
“Bacon in the chest and potatoes in the woodbox.”
Signed up for a voyage in the skies. Making their
beds in the kitchen.

CHAPTER X--GRACE TAKES THE SKY ROUTE 105
Taking no chances with the Hun. “Good luck, and
don’t fall out.” Elfreda has no desire to go skyward
on a bubble. Grace dons a flier’s harness. Lifted
cloudward by the big “sausage.” “One balloonatic
in the family is enough.”

CHAPTER XI--ROUGH GOING IN CLOUDLAND 116
The swaying basket arouses Grace’s apprehension.
Hearing miraculously restored. The Overton girl eats
her luncheon three thousand feet above the earth.
“Haul in, you idiots!” The balloon begins to buck.
“We are adrift!” announces the major.

CHAPTER XII--A LEAP FROM THE SKIES 128
The runaway balloon soars high. “We are in a fix!”
A cheerful outlook. Clouds blot out the earth. Grace
and her companion are buffeted back and forth by the
winds. Victims of Hun bullets. Grace Harlowe is
suspended between earth and sky.

CHAPTER XIII--“CAPTAIN” GRACE INVADES GERMANY 137
The major shakes the Overton girl loose. How it feels
to fall a mile through space. The officer floats into
view like a giant spider. “My, but the earth does
look good.” Grace partially wrecks a German vineyard.

CHAPTER XIV--A GUEST OF THE HUNS 146
Grace Harlowe awakens in an unfamiliar place and
overhears an enlightening conversation. The German
woman seeks information. “Captain” Grace finds
herself a prisoner in a German castle. Signals for
assistance. A night prowler in her room.

CHAPTER XV--AN INTERRUPTED INTERVIEW 159
The inquisitive frau gets a terrible fright. “You
shall suffer for this!” Morning brings more trouble.
Discovered! A Hun threat. A demonstration of Hun
“kultur.” Safe in the American lines. The intelligence
officer is aroused.

CHAPTER XVI--ELFREDA HAS A SUSPICION 170
Yvonne names the yellow cat. How Hippy cured
Nora’s admirer. Molly Marshall open to suspicion.
Billeted in a German home. “There’s a real mystery
for you.” An explosion wrecks the canteen.

CHAPTER XVII--THE TREACHERY OF THE HUN 182
Grace rescues the major. The ammunition dump
furnishes fireworks. Mrs. Smythe is shaken with
fear. “Captain” Grace refuses to obey an order.
“Something queer about that man.” The Overton
girl has bad dreams.

CHAPTER XVIII--GRACE GETS A CLUE 193
“You are the quickest-witted person I ever knew.”
“Captain” Grace “savvies” Yat Sen. The voice
from the cellar. The doctor has a visitor. A house
of mystery. “I am right or else I am terribly
wrong,” mutters Grace Harlowe.

CHAPTER XIX--A VOICE AND A FACE 200
“I must see who comes out of that house.” Grace
shatters the doctor’s argument. “The Germans are
unsportsmanlike losers.” Checkmated! Rebuked by
the supervisor. Grace meets a suspected person
and smiles a gentle greeting.

CHAPTER XX--IN A MAZE OF MYSTERIES 211
Won “savvies” too much talk. Playing the game
both ways. Molly leads the supervisor from the
canteen. Complaint is lodged against “Captain”
Grace. Suspicions confirmed. The Overton girl
makes a discovery. Grace gives a warning and
borrows an auger.

CHAPTER XXI--A MOUSE IN THE TRAP 224
Grace bores a hole through the floor of her room.
The German maid refuses a tip. When conversation
ran wild. “Planning to shoot up our friends across
the Rhine.” Grace Harlowe is amazed at what she
overhears.

CHAPTER XXII--“CAPTAIN” GRACE DECIDES TO ACT 233
Elfreda is taken into the secret. “I never dreamed
of anything so terrible as this.” Grace suspects
that she is being watched. The intelligence officer
gets an unusual invitation. The mine is laid.

CHAPTER XXIII--A DESPERATE PLOT REVEALED 242
Captain Boucher makes his call through a window.
“Should any one knock, crawl under the bed.” The
intelligence officer forgets his boots. A strange
scene in the Overton girls’ quarters.

CHAPTER XXIV--THE TRAP IS SPRUNG 246
A signal that was instantly obeyed. Ordered to
headquarters. Army officers get a genuine surprise.
Grace Harlowe reveals a deep-laid Hun plot. The
fight and the capture in the Overton girls’ billets.
Heroes who work in the shadows.

GRACE HARLOWE WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE RHINE