The Times Red Cross Story Book by Famous Novelists Serving in His Majesty's Forces. VariousЧитать онлайн книгу.

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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       Dimoussi and the Pistol By A. E. W. Mason Manchester Regiment

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       The Woman By A. A. Milne Royal Warwick Regiment

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       The Cherub By Oliver Onions Army Service Corps

       An Impossible Person By W. B. Maxwell Royal Fusiliers

       The Veil of Flying Water By Theodore Goodridge Roberts 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force

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       “Bill Bailey” By Ian Hay Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

       I THE COMING OF “BILL BAILEY”

       II THE PROVING OF “BILL BAILEY”

       III THE PASSING OF “BILL BAILEY”

       IV “BILL BAILEY” COMES AGAIN

       Life-Like By Martin Swayne Royal Army Medical Corps

       Lame Dogs By Cosmo Hamilton Royal Naval Air Service

       The Silver Thaw By R. E. Vernede Rifle Brigade

       Carnage By Compton Mackenzie Royal Navy

       The Bronze Parrot By R. Austin Freeman Royal Army Medical Corps

       The Forbidden Woman By Warwick Deeping Royal Army Medical Corps

       Eliza and the Special By Barry Pain Royal Naval Air Service

       The Probation of Jimmy Baker By Albert Kinross Army Service Corps

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       The Ghost that Failed By Desmond Coke Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

       The Miracle A Tale of the Canadian Prairie By Ralph Stock Artists’ Rifles

       The Fight for the Garden By Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

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       The Face in the Hop Vines By Charles G. D. Roberts King’s (Liverpool) Regiment

Dimoussi and the Pistol By A. E. W. Mason Manchester Regiment

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      In the maps of Morocco you will see, stretching southwards of the city of Mequinez, a great tract of uncharted country. It is lawless and forbidden land. Even the Sultan Mulai el Hassen, that great fighter, omitted it from his expeditions.

      But certain tribes are known to inhabit it, such as the Beni M’tir, and certain villages can be assigned a locality, such as Agurai, which lies one long day’s journey from the Renegade’s Gate of Mequinez.

      At Agurai Dimoussi was born, and lived for the first fifteen years of his life—Dimoussi the Englishman, as he was called, though in features and colour he had the look of an Arab with just a strain of Negro blood.

      At the age of fifteen a desire to see