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Excerpt from Hail the Conquering Hero: A Comedy in Three Acts When Mrs. Greenwood's artist brother, David, who has spent many years abroad, returns home he finds a cool reception awaiting him from his seventeen-year-old nephew, Guy, and his fifteen-year-old niece, Caryl, who feel he has shamed the family by being in Europe at the time of the war and yet taking no part in the conflict. They know that if their foster brother, Richard, a dashing young lieutenant in the Marines, could have gone over he would have saved the family honor. It is Richard who now brings the exciting news that two great foreigners, Baron Huysman and General Graveur, are to be in the city the next day. They are on a secret mission, but the Mayor has gotten wind of their coming and a big celebration is to be staged. The following day the whole town turns out to do honor to the guests, and Caryl is disgusted with her mother and Uncle David for not going, as Richard is to lead the parade as Captain of the Greys. Later, the young people return home in great distress, for the great men have never come; and when they learn they are at Uncle David's home they are amazed, and hastily conclude they must have come to take him back as a military prisoner. Instantly, Uncle David becomes dear to them, and Richard forms a daring plan to kidnap the foreigners, in which event Caryl is persuaded to star, reluctantly, as a "vamp, " to lure them to their doom. But that night when Caryl goes shakily forth to encounter her victims, Uncle David finds her, and in the scene that follows the two become such great friends that Caryl forgets her mission and it is Uncle David who is captured by Richard. Caryl's screams bring her mother and the foreigners to the scene, and in the explanations that follow the young people find that it is Uncle David who is the real hero and Richard the pale shadow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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