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George E. Rochester. The Trail of Death: War Adventures of the Flying Beetle
The Trail of Death: War Adventures of the Flying Beetle
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE DAWN PATROL
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CHAPTER II. THE UNDERSTUDY
CHAPTER III. ZEPPELINS WESTWARDS
CHAPTER IV. THE DEATH CLOUD
CHAPTER V. A NAVAL OCCASION
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III
Vandenburg.”
CHAPTER VI. A BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY
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CHAPTER VII. THE TRAIL OF DEATH
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CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST ROUND
THE GERMAN ACE
CLIPPED WINGS
THE MEETING
THE DEATH TREK
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George E. Rochester
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“There came a day, however, when Louis did hear him and the thrashing he gave von Platz will live for ever in my memory. But the years rolled on, m’sieur, we grew up—and there came the eve of war. Von Platz was here on his father’s estate. Never had he forgiven Louis for that thrashing and I knew he hated Louis. Out there in our garden, m’sieur, on one of those hushed summer evenings which immediately preceded the outbreak of war, von Platz taunted my brother about the Alsatian blood which flows in Fontnoy veins. They quarrelled—and Louis struck him!”
“But not this time was it settled with boyish fists, m’sieur. There were others there who saw that blow and von Platz demanded satisfaction. It was a duel, m’sieur, for not yet had duelling been forbidden in Germany. Von Platz is deadly with the rapier—and Louis had never handled one. Yet this affair of honour demanded clean steel—and Louis died. M’sieur, it was cold-blooded and deliberate murder on the part of von Platz, for it was to this end that he had goaded Louis into striking him. Even as a boy he had sworn he would one day repay the thrashing Louis had given him, and now he had repaid in full!”
