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It was on a cool, starlit evening, early in September, 1916, that I first met Drew of Massachusetts, and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Américaine.
There was a keen irony in the fellow's tongue and the edge of it evidently touched Chauvenet, who scowled and bent forward with his fingers on the table. "Enough of that, if you please." "As you will, carino; but you will pardon me for offering my condolences on the regrettable departure of la belle Americaine.
Shells burst about her, but to these she paid no heed. It was thus the French officer a mere lieutenant, later promoted for gallantry under fire first observed her. He called her an angel of mercy, and his soldiers rough chaps, but hearty and outspoken cheered her as La Belle Americaine. So much for the war.
Almost every day he has a bit of old newspaper in his pocket out of which he reads to la dame Americaine as he calls me, not being able to pronounce my name. It is usually something illuminating about the Germans, when it is not something prophetic. It is wonderful how these old chaps take it all to heart. All the time my heart is out there in the northeast.
Ashe, struck by a sudden thought, "if by any chance our squadron is here." She asked the question the moment they entered the hotel; and the porter, who prided himself on understanding "zose Eenglesh," replied, "Mais oui, Madame, ze Americaine fleet it is here; zat is, not here, but at Villefranche, just a leetle four mile away, it is ze same zing exactly." "Katy, do you hear that?" cried Mrs.
"And is it possible that Mademoiselle Americaine hunts as well as she makes the dance?" was his delighted answer to my explanation, which led into a half-hour description of a raw morning in the field just three days before in England, where my father and I had gone over for a week's hunting with Lord Gordon Leigh at Leigholm.
The meal passed off without any scene, notwithstanding, and Spike soon re-appeared on deck, still masticating the last mouthful like a man in a hurry, and a good deal a l' Americaine. Mulford saw his arrival, and immediately levelled his glass again. "Well, what news now, sir?" called out the captain.
But he said something in French to a waiter who was passing, and the latter came to Rob and made a low bow. "I speak ze Eengliss ver' fine," he said. "What desire have you?" "What are your rates by the day?" asked the boy. "Ten francs, M'sieur." "How many dollars is that?" "Dollar Americaine?" "Yes; United States money." "Ah, OUI! Eet is ze two dollar, M'sieur."
Some of these friends of the Allies chose the Ford Ambulance, others positions in the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, and yet others the more forceful sympathy of the bayonet as a means of expressing their wrath. Soon, through the heart of France, with the tricolor and the Stars and Stripes flying at either end, "le train Américaine" was seen hurrying, carrying its scarlet burden.
We were greeted with the most enthusiastic demonstrations by my old friend La Grosse Américaine, who had removed here from Bellefontaine. "Oh, Mrs. Armstrong," cried we, "get us some breakfast we are famishing!" At that instant who should appear but our faithful Mâtâ, driving the old calèche in which we were in the habit of making our little excursions in the neighborhood of the Port.
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