Ruth of the U. S. A.

by Edwin Balmer

THE MEMORY OF

My father

AN ENGLISHMAN AND AN

AMERICAN

CONTENTS

I	[A Beggar and a Passport]
II	[The Wand of War]
III	[The New Rôle]
IV	[At Mrs. Corliss’]
V	[“You’re Not Like Anyone Else”]
VI	[“We’re Fighting”]
VII	[“One of Our Own!”]
VIII	[France]
IX	[To Picardy]
X	[The Great Attack]
XI	[The Resistance]
XII	[“How Could This Happen?”]
XIII	[Byrne Arrives]
XIV	[Full Confession]
XV	[Gerry’s Problem]
XVI	[Into Germany]
XVII	[The Road to Lauengratz]
XVIII	[The Message in Cipher]
XIX	[The Underground Railway]
XX	[An Officers’ Prison]
XXI	[The Raid on the Schloss]
XXII	[“The War’s Over”]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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

Transcriber’s Notes

1. As printed, this book omitted words in sentences in about eight places. This edition of the book retains those sentences as printed to accurately represent the original publication.
2. Otherwise, misspelled words and printer errors have been corrected. Where multiple spellings occur, majority use has been employed.