21/22 He'll have got away, of course--a fast motor, or some such way. He seemed unable to realize that this popping of rifles, this calm, undemonstrative series of statements by an unexcited German officer, meant that war had come at last--the European war of which people even in America had talked for years as sure to come! "As for you, I meant, of course, to lend you the money and let you go on to Berlin," said Ernst. "Now I can lend you the money, but there will be no trains. |