19
I See Red
"WHAT IS THE meaning of this outrage?" I began, as we started on our journey.
The police sergeant answered me with a scowl.
"You will see soon enough what it means," he growled. " It's men like you that are playing the enemy's game for him. You ought to be shot."
I must own that I heartily agreed with his point of view. No patriotic German could fail to execrate the separatist propaganda. But how on earth had I become liable to the charge ?
I looked at Rehmy. He was sitting with his head bowed in his hands, and I felt bitterly sorry for him. A moment ago he had seemed on the threshold of success, but suddenly he was faced with the complete failure of all his plans.
I wondered for a moment whether I had been mistaken for Karl and was suffering vicariously for any one of
