The man was a German-American, and already on Jimmie's list of "suspects." That for the use of the German artillery he was preparing a concrete bed for a siege gun was only too evident.

But closer investigation proved that the concrete was only two inches thick.

And the hyphenated one explained that the basin was built over a spring, in the waters of which he planned to erect a fountain and raise gold fish.

It was a bitter blow.

Jimmie became discouraged.