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Author of _The Guns Of Europe_, _The Forest Of Swords_, etc.
D. Appleton and Company New York and London
The Star of Gettysburg The Guns of Bull Run The Guns of Shiloh The Scouts of Stonewall The Sword of Antietam The Rock of Chickamauga
The Guns of Europe The Hosts of the Air The Forest of Swords
The Young Trailers The Forest Runners The Free Rangers The Riflemen of the Ohio The Scouts of the Valley The Border Watch
The Texan Star The Texan Scouts The Texan Triumph
Apache Gold The Quest of the Four The Last of the Chiefs In Circling Camps A Soldier of Manhattan The Sun of Saratoga A Herald of the West The Wilderness Road My Captive
"The Hosts of the Air" is the third and concluding volume of the World War Series, of which "The Forest of Swords" and "The Guns of Europe" were the predecessors. It deals primarily with the love story of John Scott and Julie Lannes, but all the characters of the earlier books reappear in this romance also.
I. THE TRENCH 1 II. THE YOUNG AUSTRIAN 25 III. JULIE'S COMING 45 IV. THE HOTEL AT CHASTEL 70 V. THE REGISTER 87 VI. JOHN'S RESOLVE 108 VII. THE PURSUIT 128 VIII. INTO GERMANY 160 IX. THE GREAT CASTLE 179 X. THE FAIR CAPTIVE 200 XI. THE EFFICIENT HOSTLER 225 XII. THE HUNTING LODGE 248 XIII. THE DANGEROUS FLIGHT 278 XIV. THE HAPPY ESCAPE 299
"Once they came to the very edge of the trench to be slain there" 28
"'You! You! Is it really you?' she cried" 260
"Now the aeroplanes flew at almost incredible speed, the _Arrow_ always at their head", 332
A young man was shaving. His feet rested upon a broad plank embedded in mud, and the tiny glass in which he saw himself hung upon a wall of raw, reeking earth. A sky, somber and leaden, arched above him, and now and then flakes of snow fell in the sodden trench, but John Scott went on placidly with his task.