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THE RED CROSS GIRLS WITH
THE RUSSIAN ARMY
The Red Cross Girls
with the Russian Army
By
MARGARET VANDERCOOK
Author of “The Ranch Girls Series,” “Stories
about Camp Fire Girls Series,” etc.
Illustrated
The John C. Winston Company
Philadelphia
Copyright, 1916, by
The John C. Winston Co.
CONTENTS
Chapter | Page | |
---|---|---|
I. | A Peasant’s Hut in Russia | 7 |
II. | A Former Acquaintance | 23 |
III. | General Alexis | 37 |
IV. | An Encounter | 53 |
V. | Out of the Past | 67 |
VI. | The Arrest | 80 |
VII. | A Russian Church | 92 |
VIII. | Another Warning | 104 |
IX. | The Attack | 118 |
X. | Mildred’s Opportunity | 134 |
XI. | A Russian Retreat | 148 |
XII. | Petrograd | 158 |
XIII. | The Next Step | 174 |
XIV. | Mildred’s Return | 191 |
XV. | The Winter Palace | 206 |
XVI. | The Unexpected Happens | 217 |
XVII. | The Departure | 236 |
XVIII. | A Poem and a Conversation | 247 |
XIX. | The Reunion | 256 |
THE RED CROSS GIRLS WITH
THE RUSSIAN ARMY
CHAPTER I
A Peasant’s Hut in Russia
IN the last volume of the Red Cross series the four American girls spent six months in tragic little Belgium. There, in an American hospital in Brussels, devoted to the care, not of wounded soldiers, but of ill Belgians, three of the girls lived and worked.
But Eugenia went alone to dwell in a house in the woods because the cry of the children in Belgium made the strongest appeal to her. The house was a lonely one, supposed to be haunted, yet in spite of this Eugenia moved in. There the money of the girl whom her friend had once believed “poor as a church mouse” fed and cared for her quickly acquired family.
In Eugenia’s haunted house were other sojourners furnishing the mystery of this story and endangering her liberty, almost her life. They were a Belgian officer and his family whom the Red Cross girl kept in hiding. Somehow the officer had