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“THOSE ARE OUR GUNS THAT SOUND SO CLOSE”
CAPTAIN LUCY
IN FRANCE
Introduction
To those who made friends with Lucy Gordonon Governor’s Island it will seem a great changeto find her, in this second story, so far away fromhome. She is only one of thousands, though, towhom a few months of the great war brought morechanges than they ever thought could be crowdedinto a lifetime.
Lucy can look back over less than a year to herold life at the army post in New York Harbor beforethe Colonel was ordered overseas. To thatbrief summer time when the Gordon family wasunited during her brother Bob’s West Pointgraduation leave, and to the dark days of thewinter of 1917 when Bob was in a German prison.
Even then Lucy never lost hope, and her braveconfidence was gloriously rewarded with Bob’sfreedom. But in those dreadful weeks of waitingshe outgrew her childhood, as though even in thatpleasant home on Governor’s Island she knew thatpeace and content could never come back to herand to those she loved until America had fired herfinal shot at Germany’s crumbling lines.
She could not guess what lay before her,—whatold friends she was to meet again in strange newplaces. Yet she had resolved, even before she hadany hope of crossing to the other side, that, comewhat might, she would serve in her own way assteadfastly as her father served, as valiantly as Bob.