Inside the Lines Author:Robert Welles Ritchie, Earl Derr Biggers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill company Subjects: Spies Drama / General Drama / American Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Fiction / Espionage History / Military / World War I True Crime / Espionage Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint ... more »of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV 32 Queen's Terrace MANY a long starlit hour alone on the deck of the Castle Claire Captain YVoodnouse found himself tortured by a persistent vision. Far back over the northern horizon lay Europe, trembling and breathless before the imminent disaster -- a great field of grain, each stalk bearing for its head the helmeted head of a man. Out of the east came a glow, which spread from boundary to boundary, waxed stronger in the wind of hate. Finally the fire, devastating, insensate, began its sweep through the close-standing mazes of the grain. Somewhere in this fire-glow and swift leveling under the scythe of the flame was a girl, alone, appalled. Woodhouse could see her as plainly as though a cinema was unreeling swift pictures before him -- the girl caught in this vast acreage of fire, in the standing grain, with destruction drawing nearer in incredible strides. He saw her wide eyes, her streaming hair -- saw her running through the grain, whose heads were the helmeted heads of men. Her hands groped blindly and she was calling -- calling, with none to come in aid. Jane Gerson alone in the face of Europe's burning! Strive as he would, Woodhouse could not screen this picture from his eyes. He tried to hope that ere this, discretion had conquered her resolution to "make good," and that she had fled from Paris, one of the great army of refugees who had already begun to pour out ...« less