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The Deserter

Richard Harding Davis

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. . . not to permit repairs or temporary construction within that area until plans for rebuilding the city are complete.

Thus the setting of the story of "The Deserter" is gone, the author is gone, and who can tell at this moment whether "Hamlin," fighting in the trenches on the British front in Prance, is not also gone.

I hope it may not affect the interest or the moral of the story if I give the sequel. I know that Mr. Davis would have been glad to hear what became of the young man who left our room with an angry word of resentment against us. I hope, too, that the reader will feel a natural interest in knowing how he fared, and what punishment he received for having overstayed his leave, and for shaving his mustache as part of his plan to escape detection, both of which infractions made him subject to punishment.

One day about three weeks after Davis had left Salonika homeward bound, a soldier brought us a note from "Hamlin.". . . Read More

Community Reviews

Davis was once among America's most beloved writers. His reputation has not fallen so much as he has been forgotten. The Deserter, based on a true experience, was his last published book. Interestingly, Davis' argument against deserting is not "for king and country" but merely that it would ruin Ham