CHAPTER VII.
In the course of the morning she made several mysterious inquiries of her parent regarding nice points of international law as it concerned murder, and it is probable that he would have been struck by the odd nature of these questions had he not been unduly excited about another matter.
"I tell you, we've got to get home!" he announced gloomily.

"The German troops are ready at Aix-la-Chapelle for an assault on Liege.

Yes, sir--they're going to strike through Belgium! Know what that means?
England in the war! Labor troubles; suffragette troubles; civil war in Ireland--these things will melt away as quickly as that snow we had lastwinter in Texas.

They'll go in.

It would be national suicide if they didn't." His daughter stared at him.