THE END
How the Great War was Stopped
A Novelistic Vagary
By
L.P. GRATACAP
NEW YORK
THOMAS BENTON
1917
Copyright by
L.P. GRATACAP
1917
Printed by
THE EDDY PRESS CORPORATION
Cumberland, Maryland
CONTENTS
Chapter | Page | |
I. | Saint Choiseul | 7 |
II. | Gabrielle | 27 |
III. | My Return | 49 |
IV. | Gabrielle's Seance | 71 |
V. | The War | 95 |
VI. | The Invasion | 120 |
VII. | The Repulse | 150 |
VIII. | Gabrielle's Visitation | 168 |
IX. | God's Hand | 195 |
X. | The End | 221 |
XI. | Conclusion | 270 |
SAINT CHOISEUL
It is a pretty village, Saint Choiseul, perched on a hillside whoseslopes, undeviatingly smooth and moderate, subside into a flowingland of streams and fields and white roadways. Its narrow streets aredecorous with straight lines of prim poplars that have a militarystiffness, and while the wind stirs their hedged leaves into audibleprotest—the flutter of a restrained salutation or a salute simply—itseems hardly able to extort from their braced branches the tribute ofan obeisance.
The houses are generally simple things of two and sometimes onlyone