Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross; Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam
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Emerson Alice B.. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross; Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam
CHAPTER I – UNCLE JABEZ IS EXCITED
CHAPTER II – THE CALL OF THE DRUM
CHAPTER III – THE WOMAN IN BLACK
CHAPTER IV – “CAN A POILU LOVE A FAT GIRL?”
CHAPTER V – “THE BOYS OF THE DRAFT”
CHAPTER VI – THE PATRIOTISM OF THE PURSE
CHAPTER VII – ON THE WAY
CHAPTER VIII – THE NEAREST DUTY
CHAPTER IX – TOM SAILS, AND SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS
CHAPTER X – SUSPICIONS
Chapter XI – SAID IN GERMAN
CHAPTER XII – THROUGH DANGEROUS WATERS
CHAPTER XIII – THE NEW CHIEF
CHAPTER XIV – A CHANGE OF BASE
CHAPTER XV – NEW WORK
CHAPTER XVI – THE DAYS ROLL BY
CHAPTER XVII – AT THE GATEWAY OF THE CHATEAU
CHAPTER XVIII – SHOCKING NEWS
CHAPTER XIX – AT THE WAYSIDE CROSS
CHAPTER XX – MANY THINGS HAPPEN
CHAPTER XXI – AGAIN THE WERWOLF
CHAPTER XXII – THE COUNTESS AND HER DOG
CHAPTER XXIII – RUTH DOES HER DUTY
CHAPTER XXIV – A PARTIAL EXPOSURE
CHAPTER XXV – Quite Satisfactory
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There was a flash following the explosion, and Uncle Jabez staggered back from the doorway, his arm across his eyes, while the gun dropped with a crash to the porch. The girls, as well as Aunt Alvirah, shrieked.
“I vum!” ejaculated the miller. “Who done that? What’s happened to Old Betsey?”
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Yet Ruth did not neglect the small and seemingly unimportant duties right at hand. She was no dreamer or dallier. Having got off this big box of comforts for the boys at the front, the very next day she, with Helen, took up the effort already begun of a house-to-house campaign throughout Cheslow for Red Cross members, and to invite the feminine part of the community to aid in a big drive for knitted goods.
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was meeting that day with Mrs. Curtis, the wife of the railroad station agent and the mother of one of Ruth’s friends at boarding school. Mercy Curtis, having quite outgrown her childish ills, welcomed the friends when they rang the bell.
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