America had not come into the war yet, wi' her full strength, but in London they had reason to think she'd be in before long--and gude reason, tae, as it turned oot.

There was little that we didna ken, I've been told, aboot the German plans; we'd an intelligence system that was better by far than the sneaking work o' the German spies that helped to mak' the Hun sae hated.

And, whiles I canna say this for certain, I'm thinking they were able to send word to Washington frae Downing street that kept President Wilson and his cabinet frae being sair surprised when the Germans instituted the great drive in the spring of 1918 that came sae near to bringing disaster to the Allies.
Weel, this was the way o' it.

I'll name no names, but there were those who knew what they were talking of came tae me.
"It's hard, Harry," they said.

"But you'll be doing your country a good service if you'll be in America the noo.