Clare Biggars. She was obliged to have somebody assist her in dressing and disrobing, but she was in no pa

laughing. "They should pin the Croix de Guerre on you,

Ruth. "Why should you wish to embarra

he wore a French war cross. I tried to find out why, but all he would tell me w

ud of being cited and allowed to wear such a mark of distinction, just the same

can girls?" retu

hed old gentleman, with a row of orders across his chest. He was the prefect of police of the town, and he thought he had good reason for considering the

Ruth found the journey most abominable. Troop trains going forward, many of them filled with khaki-uniformed fighters from the States, and supply trains as well, forced

etely done up!" gasp

some nice soup," begged Jennie. "I

e ate two plates of it. She is beginning to put on fl

nie Stone. "If I weighed a ton he wou

I don't know how I bear this fat and sentimental girl. I-I wi

iously. "Let me see your left hand. What! Has

nough," gasped Ruth. "I am looking for n

te, as they left the great train shed and found a taxicab. "You would not di

ench teacher with whom she had been so friendly at Briarw

to be so quiet a place. Besides Helen Cameron and Jennie Stone, there were a lot of other y

wanted to know all about it. And that Ruth had been injured by a Hun bomb made her all the more interesting to these young American women w

erican side of the Atlantic. The Red Cross authorities gave her but a few days in Paris before sh

to have friends with her. She knew, however, that there would be those aboard the Admiral Pekhard, the Br

friends she was leaving behind in France. Down to the ship came a boy from a famous flo

ried Helen excited

ie. But she watched Ruth narrowly as the latter o

saw the card. "But somebody at the front has re

m's sister, "what do

lant, Ruthie?"

dear boy! And a st

nowledge that Tom was going to the aviation camp and expected to make his first trip into the air in the co

ery glad indeed she had said nothing to Helen about this. For alo

inger. You've heard of him? The French call him an ace

not catch the name. There was a sudden raid from the German side, and Stillinger's machine w

nto serious trouble. At least, it is reported here that an American airplane was seen fighting one

n airplane was seen to fall, and, although a searching party discover

und, heartache and anxiety. She dared tell Helen nothing about this, although she read the

ield expecting to fly with the American ace. And the fact that Tom had allowed her, Ruth, to sail without a

nobody. She set sail upon the venturesome voyage to