The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. “THOSE ARE OUR GUNS THAT SOUND SO CLOSE” “THOSE ARE OUR GUNS THAT SOUND SO CLOSE” CAPTAIN LUCY IN FRANCE CAPTAIN LUCY IN FRANCE ALINE HAVARD Author of Illustrated by THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY Captain Lucy in France Introduction To those who made friends with Lucy Gordon on Governor’s Island it will seem a great change to find her, in this second story, so far away from home. She is only one of thousands, though, to whom a few months of the great war brought more changes than they ever thought could be crowded into a lifetime. To Lucy can look back over less than a year to her old life at the army post in New York Harbor before the Colonel was ordered overseas. To that brief summer time when the Gordon family was united during her brother Bob’s West Point graduation leave, and to the dark days of the winter of 1917 when Bob was in a German prison. Even then Lucy never lost hope, and her brave confidence was gloriously rewarded with Bob’s freedom. But in those dreadful weeks of waiting she outgrew her childhood, as though even in that pleasant home on Governor’s Island she knew that peace and content could never come back to her and to those she loved until America had
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