8/18 "You are sure you are not English ?" All at once the truth came over Fred. They thought he was English! Then England must have entered the war! They would think that he was an enemy, perhaps a spy! Yet, though he knew now the cause of the suspicious looks, the mutterings, he couldn't utter a word in his defence. He hadn't been formally accused of anything. I've no English blood in me." He had intended to try to get a place to sleep in the village, but now he decided that it would be better to get away as soon as he could. |