The Khaki Boys at Camp Sterling
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | The Glory Road to France | [1] |
| II | Off to Camp Sterling | [10] |
| III | The Beginning of Comradeship | [17] |
| IV | All in the Day’s Work | [28] |
| V | The Beauty of Good Advice | [39] |
| VI | The Beginning of Trouble | [50] |
| VII | Caught in His Own Trap | [57] |
| VIII | A Mysterious Disappearance | [65] |
| IX | The Crowning Insult | [76] |
| X | No Longer “Just Rookies” | [89] |
| XI | The Result of Staying Awake | [97] |
| XII | An Unexpected Friend at Court | [109] |
| XIII | A Corporal at Last | [121] |
| XIV | Adventure | [131] |
| XV | The Twinkle Twins | [137] |
| XVI | Unknown, Unguessed | [148] |
| XVII | The Work of a Fiend | [154] |
| XVIII | The Clue | [164] |
| XIX | A Fruitful Rubbish Can | [172] |
| XX | A Leap in the Dark | [178] |
| XXI | The Fight | [184] |
| XXII | The Round-Up | [191] |
| XXIII | Iggy Turns Sleuth | [195] |
| XXIV | Conclusion | [202] |
CHAPTER I
THE GLORY ROAD TO FRANCE
“You, over there in the crowd, and you and you, why don’t you get busy and help Uncle Sam? What are you hanging back for? Now’s your chance to show that you’re a real American, and ready to fight for your country. What’s the use of waiting for the draft to get you? You’re just wasting time! The sooner you enlist, the sooner you’ll be ready to do your bit in France. It’s up to good old Uncle Sam to jump into the big war and win it. But he can’t do it alone. It needs a lot of brave, husky fellows to lick the Boches off the map. Are you going to be one of ’em? Every little bit helps, you know!
“Now we’re going to sing you one more song. While we’re singing it, get on the job and think hard. We want to take a bunch of you back with us to the recruiting station. All right, boys. Give ’em ‘The Glory Road to France!’”
Standing in the middle of a big recruiting wagon, lavishly decorated in red, white and blue, the orator, a good-looking young soldier of perhaps twenty years, bawled out, “Let ’er go!”