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Title: The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army

Author: Margaret Vandercook

Release Date: July 18, 2007 [EBook #22095]

Language: English

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THE RED CROSS GIRLS WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY

[Illustration: BARBARA PRESENTED HIM WITH THE ELECTRIC LAMP.
(_See page 150._)]

The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army

By
MARGARET VANDERCOOK

Author of "The Ranch Girls Series," "Stories
about Camp Fire Girls Series," etc.

Illustrated

The John C. Winston Company
Philadelphia

Copyright, 1916, by
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A PEASANT'S HUT IN RUSSIA 7

II. A FORMER ACQUAINTANCE 23

III. GENERAL ALEXIS 37

IV. AN ENCOUNTER 53

V. OUT OF THE PAST 67

VI. THE ARREST 80

VII. A RUSSIAN CHURCH 92

VIII. ANOTHER WARNING 104

IX. THE ATTACK 118

X. MILDRED'S OPPORTUNITY 134

XI. A RUSSIAN RETREAT 148

XII. PETROGRAD 158

XIII. THE NEXT STEP 174

XIV. MILDRED'S RETURN 191

XV. THE WINTER PALACE 206

XVI. THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS 217

XVII. THE DEPARTURE 236

XVIII. A POEM AND A CONVERSATION 247

XIX. THE REUNION 256

CHAPTER I

_A Peasant's Hut in Russia_

In the last volume of the Red Cross series the four American girls spent
six months in tragic little Belgium. There, in an American hospital in
Brussels, devoted to the care, not of wounded soldiers, but of ill
Belgians, three of the girls lived and worked.

But Eugenia went alone to dwell in a ho