Who Goes There Author:Robert W. Chambers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 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 missing text. When you buy the General Books editi... more »on 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 IK TIPPEKARY [T noon on the following day Kervyn Guild wrote to his friend Darrel: Dear Harry: Instead of joining you on the Black Erenz for the late August trout fishing I am obliged to go elsewhere. I have had a most unpleasant experience, and it is not ended, and I do not yet know what the outcome is to be. From the fact that I have not dated this letter it will be evident to you that I am not permitted to do so. Also you will understand that I have been caught somewhere in the war zone and that is why the name of the place from which I am writing you is omitted -- by request. We have halted for luncheon at a wayside inn -- the gentleman who is kind enough to accompany me, and I -- and I have obtained this benevolent gentleman's authorization to write you whatever I please as long as I do NOT 1st. Tell you where I am going. 2d. Tell you where I am. 3d. Tell you anything else that does not suit him. And he isn't a censor at that; he is just a very efficient, polite, and rather good-looking German officer serving as aide on the staff of a certain German major-general. Day before yesterday, after luncheon, I was playing a quiet game of chess with the Burgomaster of a certain Belgian village, and was taking a last look before setting out for Luxembourg on foot, rucksack, stick, and all, when -- well, circumstances over which I had no control interrupted the game of chess. It was white to go and mate in three moves. The Burgomaster was playing black. I had him, Harry. Too ba...« less