By Max Pemberton

Sickle and reaper and harvest of sorrow;
Heavy the wagons that gather the dead;
Let there be dirge for the sun of the morrow!
God is the gleaner on fields ye have fled!

CONTENTS

[Book I]
MAN AND WIFE

CHAPTER

PAGE

I.[Père Bonot reads the “Courrier”]1
II.[At the Place Kleber]10
III.[“A Looming Bastion”]25
IV.[At the Châlet of the Niederwald]33
V.[The Herald of the Storm]49
VI.[The Last Day of July]56
VII.[“Those Others”]67
VIII.[Over the Hearts of France]83
IX.[The Fugitive]90
X.[Waiting]102
XI.[The Hussars are at Gunstett]108

[Book II]
BATTLE

XII.[The Blood-Red Day of Wörth]115
XIII.[The Death Ride]131
XIV.[Night]148
XV.[A Bivouac of Dragoons]162
XVI.[The Promise]166
XVII.[The City of the Golden Mists]176