NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
1916

Copyright, 1916
by
E. P. DUTTON & CO.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

In Memoriam

TO MY CAPTAIN
COUNT J. DE TARRAGON
AND
TO MY TWO COMRADES
2nd LIEUT. MAGRIN and 2nd LIEUT. CLÈRE
WITH WHOM
MANY PAGES OF THIS BOOK ARE CONCERNED
WHO FELL
ALL THREE ON THE FIELD OF HONOUR
IN DEFENCE
OF THEIR COUNTRY

“Dragons que Rome eut pris pour des LÉgionnaires.”