Women wanted: The story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the Great World War

Women wanted: The story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the Great World War

The chamois bag that for months has bulged beneath is gone. As regularly as I fastened my garters every morning I have been wont to buckle the safety belt about my waist and straighten the bag at my side and feel with careful fingers for its tight shut clasp. You have to be thoughtful like that when youre carrying credentials on which at any moment your personal safety, even your life may depend. As faithfully as I looked under the bed at night I always counted them over: my letter of credit for $3,000, my blue enveloped police book, and my passport criss-crossed with viss in the varied colours of all the rubber stamps that must officially vouch for me along my way. Ah, they were still all there. And with a sigh of relief I was wont to retire to my[14] pillow with the sense of one more day safely done. The long steel lines I have passed, I cannot forget. Who goes there? These that speak with authority are men with pistols in their belts and swords at their sides. And there are rows of them, O rows and rows of them along the way to the front. See the cold glitter of them! I still look nervously first over one shoulder and then over the other. This morning at breakfast a waiter only drops a fork. And I jump at the sound as if a shot had been fired. You know the feeling somethings going to catch you if you dont watch out. Well, you have it like that for a long time after youve been in the war zone. Will it be a submarine or a Zeppelin or a khaki clad line of steel? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 68257
Author: Daggett, Mabel Potter
Release Date: Jun 7, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: George H. Doran Company,1917
Publication Date: 1917
Publisher Country: United States