But a strange thing happened at Morris's.
An American flag was first hung from an upper window over the east verandah.

Then, after a moment, it was withdrawn.

Then a red flag was put out.

But almost immediately Cleggett saw a man rip the red flag from its fastenings and fling it to the ground.
Cleggett, resorting to his glass, perceived that it was the tall man with the stoop shoulders and incongruous clothing who had torn down the red flag.

He was now in violent altercation with the man who had hung it out--the fellow whom he had called Heinrich some days before.
As Cleggett watched, the two men came to blows; then they clinched and struggled, swaying back and forth within the open window, like a moving picture in a frame.