CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | ||
| I | Tom Meets One Friend and is Reminded of Another | [1] | |
| II | He Does a Good Turn and Makes a Discovery | [9] | |
| III | He Scents Danger and Receives a Letter | [19] | |
| IV | He Gets a Job and Meets “Frenchy” | [29] | |
| V | He Makes a Discovery and Receives a Shock | [39] | |
| VI | He Hears About Alsace and Receives a Present | [46] | |
| VII | He Becomes Very Proud, and Also Very Much Frightened | [55] | |
| VIII | He Hears Some News and is Confidential with Frenchy | [61] | |
| IX | He Sees a Strange Light and Goes on Tiptoe | [68] | |
| X | He Goes Below and Gropes in the Dark | [77] | |
| XI | He Makes a Discovery and is Greatly Agitated | [83] | |
| XII | He is Frightened and Very Thoughtful | [86] | |
| XIII | He Ponders and Decides Between Two Near Relations | [92] | |
| XIV | He is Arrested and Put in the Guardhouse | [97] | |
| XV | He Does Most of the Talking and Takes All the Blame | [103] | |
| XVI | He Sees a Little and Hears Much | [107] | |
| XVII | He Awaits the Worst and Receives a Surprise | [115] | |
| XVIII | He Talks with Mr. Conne and Sees the Boys Start For the Front | [121] | |
| XIX | He is Cast Away and is in Great Peril | [129] | |
| XX | He is Taken Aboard the “Tin Fish” and Questioned | [135] | |
| XXI | He is Made a Prisoner and Makes a New Friend | [144] | |
| XXII | He Learns Where He is Going and Finds a Ray of Hope | [151] | |
| XXIII | He Makes a High Resolve and Loses a Favorite Word | [154] | |
| XXIV | He Goes to the Civilian Camp and Doesn’t Like it | [161] | |
| XXV | He Visits the Old Pump and Receives a Shock | [169] | |
| XXVI | He has an Idea Which Suggests Another | [176] | |
| XXVII | He Plans a Desperate Game and Does a Good Job | [185] | |
| XXVIII | He Disappears—For the Time Being | [192] |
TOM SLADE
ON A TRANSPORT
CHAPTER I
TOM MEETS ONE FRIEND AND IS REMINDED OF ANOTHER
As Tom Slade went through Terrace Avenue on his way to the Temple Camp office, where he was employed, he paused beside a truck backed up against the curb in front of a certain vacant store. Upon it was a big table and wrestling with the table was Pete Connigan, the truckman—the very same Pete Connigan at whom Tom used to throw rocks and whom he had called a “mick.” It reminded him of old times to see Pete.
The vacant store, too, aroused dubious memories, for there he had stolen many an apple in the days when Adolf Schmitt had his “cash grocery” on the premises, and used to stand in the doorway with his white apron on, shaking his fist as Tom scurried down the street and calling, “I’ll strafe you, you young loafer!”
Tom had wondered what strafing was, until long afterward he heard that poor Belgium was being strafed; and then he knew.