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Ruth of The
U. S. A.

Ruth crouched beside Gerry, and shot through the wreckage at the circling German plane

[Page 173]

Ruth of the
U. S. A.

BY
Edwin Balmer

ILLUSTRATED BY
Harold H. Betts

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1919

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1919

Copyright
The Tribune Company
1918

Published March, 1919

Copyrighted in Great Britain

W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO

TO
THE MEMORY OF
My Father
AN ENGLISHMAN AND AN
AMERICAN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	A Beggar and a Passport	1
II	The Wand of War	17
III	The New Rôle	30
IV	At Mrs. Corliss'	42
V	"You're Not Like Anyone Else"	48
VI	"We're Fighting"	70
VII	"One of Our Own!"	91
VIII	France	110
IX	To Picardy	127
X	The Great Attack	141
XI	The Resistance	157
XII	"How Could This Happen?"	175
XIII	Byrne Arrives	197
XIV	Full Confession	212
XV	Gerry's Problem	229
XVI	Into Germany	244
XVII	The Road to Lauengratz	260
XVIII	The Message in Cipher	274
XIX	The Underground Railway	291
XX	An Officers' Prison	305
XXI	The Raid on the Schloss	323
XXII	"The War's Over"	348

ILLUSTRATIONS

Ruth crouched beside Gerry, and shot through the wreckage at the circling German plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		Frontispiece
She looked away, half expecting the sound of the music, and the roses, and palms, and Gerry Hull would vanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		46
Gerry was there at the door of her cell; another man was with him; a friend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		334

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