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Cupid, Duty and Desperate Decisions on a War Era Train
In a wartime Chicago to Florida tale Lieutenant Robert Emmett Kavanaugh risks a deserting plot to save Norah Desmond as a gun in hand, aided by a loyal Private Spencer. A second West Point vignette shows Billy Lang enforcing guard duty during a storm, preserving Frances Curtis and Frederick Jackson despite danger and pneumonia risk.
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T Army
Cupid
Mars
Robert Emmett Kavanaugh
Fort Grady
Michigan
Bob
Norah
Florida
Frank
Muggs
Winfeld Scott
Vieutenant
Kavanaugh
Percy Lanyard
Artillery Corps
Lanyard
Chicago
Fort Sherman
Sherman
Bob Kavanaugh
Spencer
James Spencer
Jack Bacon
Jack
Bacon
Robert Emmett
Halsted Street
Polly
Jim
Norah Desmond
West Point Fe
West Point
Billy Lang
Billy
The
Hudson
Frances Curtis
Miss Curtis
Mr. Jackson
Frances
Powell
Crow’s Nest Mountain
Catskills
Old Rip
Frederick Jackson
New York
Miss