"Mebbe dad told me it happened to grandpop," Jimmie would explain, "or I dreamed it, or, mebbe, I read it in a story book." The "German spy" mania attacked Round Hill after the visit to the boy scouts of Clavering Gould, the war correspondent.

He was spending the week end with "Squire" Harry Van Vorst, and as young Van Vorst, besides being a justice of the peace and a Master of Beagles and President of the Country Club, was also a local "councilman" for the Round Hill Scouts, he brought his guest to a camp-fire meeting to talk to them.

In deference to his audience, Gould told them of the boy scouts he had seen in Belgium and of the part they were playing in the great war.

It was his peroration that made trouble.
"And any day," he assured his audience, "this country may be at war with Germany; and every one of you boys will be expected to do his bit.

You can begin now.