CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. THEIR FIRST HERO
II. REMI THE BRAVE
III. THE HEROINE OF FORT MONTERE
IV. FRANCOIS OUTWITS THE PRUSSIANS
V. THE SACRIFICE OF LITTLE PIERRE
VI. A LITTLE SOLDIER OF FRANCE
VII. SAVED BY A CHILD'S WIT
VIII. THE CHILD DESPATCH BEARER
IX. GENÉ AND THE BAVARIAN DRAGOONS
X. A LITTLE SOLDIER OF MERCY
XI. A BRAVE LITTLE COWARD
XII. THE HERO OF THE GUNS
XIII. MARIE THE COURAGEOUS
XIV. CONCLUSION
CHAPTER I
THEIR FIRST HERO
Before the "Squire's" son went away to war, the neighborhood children
knew him only by sight and by hearing their parents speak of him as
the son of "the richest man in Titusville," who never had done a day's
work in his life.
Perhaps the parents were not quite right in this, for, even if Robert
Favor had not gone out in the fields to labor, he had graduated from
high school and college with high honors. He never spoke to the
village children nor noticed them, and was not, as a result, very
popular with the young people of his home town. The neighbors said
this was all on account of his bringing up.
It was therefore a surprise to them when, at the beginning of the
great war, after Germany swept over Belgium, Robert Favor hurried to
Europe. It was later learned that he had joined what is known as the
"Foreign Legion" of the French Army. Titusville next heard that he had
been made a lieutenant for heroic conduct under fire. But Titusville
did not believe it; it said no Favor ever did anything but run away in
such circumstances. But they believed it when, later on, they read in
the newspapers how Lieutenant Favor had sprung out of the trenches and
ran to the rescue of a wounded private soldier who had lain in a shell
hole in No Man's Land since the night before.
The village swelled with pride and the eyes of the children grew wide
with wonder as they listened to the story of the heroism of the
Squire's son. But this was as nothing to what occurred later. "Bob"
Favor was brought home one day to the house on the hill, pale and
weak from wounds received in battle.
