Various
The Times Red Cross Story Book by Famous Novelists Serving in His Majesty's Forces
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664606341
Table of Contents
Dimoussi and the Pistol By A. E. W. Mason Manchester Regiment
The Woman By A. A. Milne Royal Warwick Regiment
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
“Bill Bailey” By Ian Hay Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
II THE PROVING OF “BILL BAILEY”
III THE PASSING OF “BILL BAILEY”
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
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
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
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