Victorious A Novel Author:Reginald Wright Kauffman General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill company Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Military / World War I Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missi... more »ng 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 III HOW ANDY ENTERED DANGERS BEYOND THE DANGER-ZONE J AND OF A FACE AT A CAB-WINDOW It Was with a high head that Andy entered the white- walled room in the rue de Constantine which was the chief censor's office. Heaps of printed forms and boxes of stationery were piled on the bare floor. A few collapsible chairs stood about. From the top of the single table, Andy was confronted by the soles of a pair of spurred boots. He hesitated a moment and then stepped forward. Two legs ran out of the boots and down to a tilted chair; up from the chair rose a narrow-chested figure, on the sloping shoulders of which were the insignia of a first-lieutenant. He had a cadaverous face; his dark hair was thick, a mass of stiff curly tendrils; his protruding eyes dull. Evidently he had breakfasted well, for he sat picking his teeth in unspeculative calm. "Good morning," said Andy. The dental operations were not at once discontinued in favor of conversation. Andy felt the flush that crept over his freckled face. "I've come to report, sir," he said. "I'm an accredited correspondent." Very slowly the lieutenant removed his feet from the table. He spat out the latest discoveries of the toothpick, but the pick itself he only shifted to a corner of his thin lips. "Well," he said, "you're not the only one." Andy's flush deepened. "My orders," said he, "are to report to the chief censor. That's Major Curtis." In justice to individual censors, the author wishes t...« less