"She is always saying that she certainly does not regard it as a weapon against England." At that Doctor Dohrn raised his eyebrows.

"But you, _gnaedige Frau_, are a German ?" "Of course." "Well, then, you will understand me when I say with all the seriousness I can command that this fleet of ours is intended to deal with smugglers on the shores of the Island of Ruegen." I laughed.

He became graver still.
"The ultimate enemy of our country is America[85]; and I pray that I may see the day of an alliance between a beaten England and a victorious Fatherland against the bully of the Americas." Well, Germany and Austria were never friends until Sadowa had shown the way.

Oh! if your country, which in spite of all I love so much, would but "see things clearly and see them whole." Bremen, September 25, 1914.
_To Ralph W.Page_[86] London, Sunday, November 15, 1914.
DEAR RALPH: You were very good to sit down in Greensboro', or anywhere else, and to write me a fine letter.

Do that often.