Adventure of the breathless sort is the subject matter of The Yellow Dove, in which Mr. George Gibbs shows what may happen to people who get mixed up in the present European entanglement. His heroine, Doris, an American girl working as a Red Cross nurse in London, cannot understand why the Honourable Cyril Hammersley, an athlete and all-around sportsman, hangs around drawing-rooms instead of wearing khaki in the trenches, and tells him so. His answer is that he is afraid. But Hammersley is in reality a hero enlisted in the secret service [...] Much of the story sounds like burlesque, but for those readers who want a thrill on every page it will doubtless prove a fascinating tale. —From a review in The Bookman 1916.
2786882The Yellow Dove1915George Fort Gibbs
THE YELLOW DOVE
'His blond hair disheveled, his shoulders coatless, Cyril emerged."
"His blond hair disheveled, his shoulders coatless, Cyril emerged"
Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
"‘Not that,' he whispered hoarsely, 'for God's sake not that’"
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"Her lips . . . were whispering words that she hoped could follow him into the distance"
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"The truth, and he becomes an honorable prisoner of war. Silence, and he is shot tomorrow. Speak"
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