Excerpt from The Scar That Tripled: A True Story of the Great War He is over at the front in France now, if he is still alive, with three scars across his stomach instead of the one that Richard Harding Davis knew. When Davis wrote his story about this youth with the scar - his last story, called "The Deserter," which appeared in the September number of the Metropolitan Magazine - we were all in so much doubt whether the one scar was honorable or not that Davis did not even mention the scar in what he wrote. 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.