Over There with the Marines at Chateau Thierry

by G. Harvey Ralphson

M. A. DONOHUE & CO.

CHICAGO

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Phil and Tim	[7]
II	Four Kilos on Hobnails	[11]
III	Digging in	[17]
IV	Gas Masks	[22]
V	A Machine-Gun Barrage	[27]
VI	The Boches Charge	[32]
VII	Timber Fighting	[37]
VIII	Aid from the Air	[44]
IX	“Kill, Kill, Kill”	[48]
X	A Novel Disarmament	[52]
XI	Phil a Prisoner	[57]
XII	A Barbed Wire Prison	[62]
XIII	Mr. Boaconstrictor	[69]
XIV	A New Prison	[75]
XV	A Light without Matches	[81]
XVI	Plans for Escape	[87]
XVII	Tunneling	[92]
XVIII	The Prisoners Take a Prisoner	[96]
XIX	Overheard in a Sandpit	[102]
XX	Escape	[107]
XXI	The Plot	[112]
XXII	Good-by	[118]
XXIII	The Fight in the Cellar	[122]
XXIV	Another Capture	[127]
XXV	A Chapter of Wind	[131]
XXVI	Turning the Tables	[135]
XXVII	Food for Prohibition	[141]
XXVIII	The Prisoners Flee	[145]
XXIX	In Hiding	[150]
XXX	An Audacious Scheme	[155]
XXXI	Phil’s Strategy	[159]
XXXII	Mr. Boa Again	[164]
XXXIII	Tanks and “Water Cure”	[170]
XXXIV	From Tank to Limousine	[178]
XXXV	In a Tight Place	[183]
XXXVI	Suggestive Flattery	[188]
XXXVII	A Useless Argument	[193]
XXXVIII	What the Lightning Revealed	[199]
XXXIX	“The Castle of the Human Snake”	[204]
XL	A Room of Torture	[209]
XLI	The “Subterrene”	[215]
XLII	Rescued	[220]

Over There with the Marines

at

Chateau Thierry

CHAPTER I
PHIL AND TIM

Top Sergeant Phil Speed did not know exactly where he was when the long train of trucks bearing hundreds of khaki-clad American Marines stopped at a small town within easy gun-roar of the battle front in France. They were making little demonstration now. For weeks they had been cheering and been cheered until their throats became sore and well again—calloused, as it were. So spontaneous and so nearly universal had been the enthusiastic reception extended to them everywhere that it seemed as if every person who didn’t yell his head off must be pro-kaiser.