Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs

he street, but could see no one. It was as though the earth

blocks around, but nothing rewarded their endeavors, and it was a bedraggled and exas

It's as though we were all bewitched. Somebody's wished

or those other bullets that came singing over our heads while we were hugging the ground

huckling to themselves because they put one

Bart. "They'll laugh on the other side o

light of a lantern hanging on the arm of the foremost man revealed a group coming toward them

t the whole thing to the corpo

ole thing up my sleeve until we've solved the mystery. But there's danger abroad to-night, and i

e so close that the light of his lant

, who was the boys' old friend, Wilson. "What was th

ile, and then went on to make his report of the occurrences o

s that are happening lately. I'll report the facts at headquarters and you may be called upon

avail themselves of the p

imed Frank, as they scurr

on to it, old man, for dear life." Frank m

k, "and I've come to the conclusion that those f

mation of surprise

said Billy. "I

em?" queried Bart. "They might hav

ey guessed too that, not finding them, we'd flash a light. That would make us a good target to their confederates who had c

"The shots came just after the light was flashed.

e men disappeared to who went into

going to try to find the answer to this. I'm not going to drop it. Of course, I suppose the secret service men will take the thing up, but I'm

olve the mystery, it may be well for the sake of those who have not read the precedi

Frank lived in a little cottage with his mother, of whom for some years he was the sole support. She was of French birth, and by the death of her father had recently come into possession of a considerable estat

f he had consulted only his own wishes would have enlisted at once. But his mother's dependence upon him made him hesitate. An episode occurred, however, that decided him, when he was forced to knock down a burly German who had insult

, joined also. Another friend, Tom Bradford, tried to join, but was rejected on account of his teeth. He was afterward ac

ts. He was born in America, but his parents were German. Rabig and Frank Sheldon were at sword's points most of the time because of the former's bullying disposition, and afte

ck on the way to Europe, what exciting adventures they met with on their first contact with the enemy, are de

advancing, the boys became separated from their comrades and were compelled to leap from a broken bridge into a stream, and when they attempted to swim to the other side found themselves in the enemy's hands. For a time a German priso

perty from a French colonel whose life he had saved under a rain of fir

diers, as is shown in the second volume of the series, entitled: "Arm

he Allies' final victory. The Americans were brought to the front to check the thrust of the Crown Prince's army toward Paris, and the old Thirty-seventh found itself in the very van of the fighting. Tom was captured, and had a series of thrilling experiences before he was able to escape and rejoin his comrades. Nick Rabi

e back in a headlong retreat. Again and again the Germans tried to rally, bu

t Frank under a cloud, because it looked as though he were involved in the robbery of a paymaster's clerk, ended in showing that Nick Rabig was the real culpri

e, crowded with machine gun nests and swept with a hurricane of shot and shell. But nothing could stop America's boys now that their blood was up, and they did much in helping to win here the fina

a German spy, how they marched as conquerors into Germany, how Frank was cheered by learning that his mother's property was sure to come to her, how Bart was found and restored to his right mind, how by the aid of the suspected spy who turned out to be a patriotic American

ing, and the sun was some hours high when they found themselves together again in their favorite spot in front of th

pped Frank on the back, "have you figured out any dope about

eep the minute my head touched the pillow. And so far this morning I've been so busy packing away grub that I haven't ha

Wilson approaching. "I wonder whether he found

iet for the rest of the night. I stationed two of the men close to the alley with spe

wered Frank. "They wouldn't be likely to t

of you fellows," suggested the corporal. "Have any of y

" replied Frank. "

ty," laug

e to time," said Tom thoughtfully, "but we wer

covered the plot to blow up Ehrenbreitstein and got the tip to our people just in t

thought of that. I shouldn't wonder i

when that plot was knocked on the head. They had sworn that no forei

y jubilantly, as he pointed to the St

f their caps, as they gaze