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Keller - -Release Date: September 7, 2012 [EBook #40696] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHO GOES THERE! *** - - - - -Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40696 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 453px;"> <a name="col01" id="col01"></a><img class="border" src="images/col01.jpg" width="453" height="700" alt="Who goes there!" title="Who goes there!" /> @@ -1142,7 +1102,7 @@ see—if I remember—there was such a family inscribed in the Book of Gold. There was even a Kervyn of Gueldres—a count, was he not?—Comte d'Yvoir—Count <span class="pagenum"><a name="page16" id="page16"></a>[pg 16]</span> -of Yvoir, Hastière, and Lesse. Was he not—this +of Yvoir, Hastière, and Lesse. Was he not—this Kervyn of Gueldres, many, many years ago?"</p> <p class="indent">"I congratulate General von Reiter on his memory @@ -1508,10 +1468,10 @@ You'll find it difficult to get. May I recommend the Edmeston Agency? It's about the only agency, now, where any gasoline at all is obtainable. The Edmeston Agency. I use it when I am in London. Ask for Mr. -Louis Grätz."</p> +Louis Grätz."</p> <p class="indent">After a moment he added, "My chauffeur brought -your luggage, rücksack, stick, and so forth, from Yslemont. +your luggage, rücksack, stick, and so forth, from Yslemont. You will go to the enemies' lines south of Ostend in my car. One of my aides-de-camp will accompany you and show you a letter of instructions before delivering @@ -1595,7 +1555,7 @@ German major-general.</p> playing a quiet game of chess with the Burgomaster of a certain Belgian village, and was taking a last look before setting out for Luxembourg -on foot, rücksack, stick, and all, when—well, +on foot, rücksack, stick, and all, when—well, circumstances over which I had no control interrupted the game of chess. It was white to go and mate in three moves. The Burgomaster was @@ -1652,7 +1612,7 @@ head, so never mind the guns.)</p> <p class="indent">Their regimental bands are wonderful. It is a sheer delight to listen to them. They play everything from "Polen Blut" and "Sari," to Sousa, -"Tannhäuser," and "A Hot Time," but I haven't +"Tannhäuser," and "A Hot Time," but I haven't yet heard "Tipperary." (He seems puzzled at this, but does not object.) I expect shortly to hear a band playing it. (I have to explain to @@ -1875,7 +1835,7 @@ is called Quellenheim, and it belongs to me. If I am not there you must remain there over night. In the morning if you do not hear from me, you are at liberty to go where you please, and your -engagements vis-à-vis to me are cancelled.</p> +engagements vis-à -vis to me are cancelled.</p> <p class="right"><span class="smcap">von Reiter</span>, Maj-Gen'l.</p> </blockquote> @@ -2175,11 +2135,11 @@ you."</p> you. When I arrived here this afternoon I desired the management to hire for my use a powerful and absolutely reliable touring car and a chauffeur. I mentioned -the Edmeston Agency and a Mr. Louis Grätz.</p> +the Edmeston Agency and a Mr. Louis Grätz.</p> <p class="indent">"Half an hour later the management informed me that they had secured such a car for me from Mr. Louis -Grätz at the Edmeston Agency; that I was permitted +Grätz at the Edmeston Agency; that I was permitted sufficient gasoline to take me from here to Westheath, back here again, and then to the docks of the Holland Steamship Company next Sunday.</p> @@ -2287,7 +2247,7 @@ what he is doing out there we can hold him on the dock."</p> <p class="indent">"Another thing," mused Gwynn. "The Edmeston <span class="pagenum"><a name="page45" id="page45"></a>[pg 45]</span> Agency may be quite all right, but the man's name is -Grätz."</p> +Grätz."</p> <p class="indent">"He's been under scrutiny. He seems to be all right."</p> @@ -2469,7 +2429,7 @@ explanation of the visit.</p> <p class="indent">It was all very well for this young girl to kick over the tradition, cut home traces in the sacred cause of art, call herself Girard, and live in an impossible villa for -art's sake. Few well-born Fräuleins ever did this sort +art's sake. Few well-born Fräuleins ever did this sort of thing, but there had been instances. And anybody in Germany will always add that they invariably went to the devil.</p> @@ -2640,7 +2600,7 @@ and narrow skirts of the same, and a wide golden-brown hat, and tan spats. The gods had been very, very kind to Miss Girard, for she even adorned her clothes, and that phenomenon is not usual in Great -Britain or among German Fräuleins however accomplished +Britain or among German Fräuleins however accomplished and however well born.</p> <p class="indent">She said: "I beg your pardon for detaining you so @@ -2873,19 +2833,19 @@ mean you are to leave the room——"</p> <p class="indent">She lifted the receiver: "Yes, I am here.... Yes, this is Miss Girard. Yes, Miss Karen Girard.... -Mr. Louis Grätz? Oh, good morning!"</p> +Mr. Louis Grätz? Oh, good morning!"</p> <p class="indent">At the name of the man with whom she was speaking Guild turned around surprised. At the same instant the girl's face flushed brightly as she sat listening to -what the distant Mr. Grätz was saying to her.</p> +what the distant Mr. Grätz was saying to her.</p> <p class="indent">Guild watched her; perplexity, surprise, a deeper flush of consternation, all were successively visible on her youthful face.</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page60" id="page60"></a>[pg 60]</span> -"Yes," she said to Mr. Grätz. "Yes, I will do whatever +"Yes," she said to Mr. Grätz. "Yes, I will do whatever he wishes.... Yes, he is here—here in my room with me. We were talking while I packed. Yes, I will do so." And, turning her head a little she said to @@ -2899,7 +2859,7 @@ over beside her listening.</p> <p class="indent">"Yes."</p> -<p class="indent">"I am Grätz of the Edmeston Agency. Get that +<p class="indent">"I am Grätz of the Edmeston Agency. Get that young lady out of the house at once. Do you understand?"</p> <p class="indent">"Yes."</p> @@ -2979,15 +2939,15 @@ to do. He said Anna, my maid, had been arrested."</p> <p class="indent">"Who is he?" asked Guild grimly.</p> -<p class="indent">"Do you mean Mr. Grätz?"</p> +<p class="indent">"Do you mean Mr. Grätz?"</p> -<p class="indent">"Yes; who is Mr. Grätz?"</p> +<p class="indent">"Yes; who is Mr. Grätz?"</p> <p class="indent">"Don't <i>you</i> know him?" she said, astonished.</p> <p class="indent">"I have never laid eyes on him. Your father recommended to me the Edmeston Agency and mentioned the -name of a Louis Grätz who might be of use to me. +name of a Louis Grätz who might be of use to me. That is all I know."</p> <p class="indent">"My—<i>father</i>—you say?"</p> @@ -2998,7 +2958,7 @@ That is all I know."</p> don't understand about my maid——"</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page63" id="page63"></a>[pg 63]</span> -"Did Mr. Grätz tell you she had been arrested?"</p> +"Did Mr. Grätz tell you she had been arrested?"</p> <p class="indent">"Yes."</p> @@ -3083,13 +3043,13 @@ here. I was intending to go to the War Office to tell them there very frankly about my predicament, and to ask permission to take you back in order to save my fellow-hostages, the village, and my own life; and now -a man named Grätz of whom I know nothing calls me +a man named Grätz of whom I know nothing calls me on the telephone and warns me not to go to the War Office but to get you out of England as soon as I can do it.</p> <p class="indent">"What am I to think of this? What does this man -Grätz mean when he tells me that your maid has been +Grätz mean when he tells me that your maid has been arrested on a serious charge and that the Edmeston Agency of a German automobile is in danger?"</p> @@ -3126,7 +3086,7 @@ execute you."</p> on what is likely to happen to me if I go back without you. If you don't mind I think we had better start at once. We have had our warning from this man -Grätz."</p> +Grätz."</p> <p class="indent">He gave her a searching glance, hesitated, then apparently came to an abrupt conclusion.</p> @@ -3376,12 +3336,12 @@ now?"</p> <p class="indent">"Yes, please."</p> -<p class="indent">"Then—the man, Grätz, says that you must go +<p class="indent">"Then—the man, Grätz, says that you must go aboard that steamer as my wife."</p> <p class="indent">The girl looked at him bewildered. "Somebody," continued Guild, "has taken passage for us as Mr. and Mrs. -Kervyn Guild. Grätz warned me. My name is Kervyn. +Kervyn Guild. Grätz warned me. My name is Kervyn. Yours is Karen. Our initials are alike. If there is any suspicion directed toward us there are the initials on your satchel and suit-case—and presumably on your @@ -3394,7 +3354,7 @@ clothing. Do you understand?"</p> <p class="indent">"I mind a little—yes. But I'll do what is necessary," she said, confused.</p> -<p class="indent">"I think it is necessary. This man Grätz who seems +<p class="indent">"I think it is necessary. This man Grätz who seems to know more about my business than I do, tells me so. I believe he is right."</p> @@ -3759,7 +3719,7 @@ you?"</p> <p class="indent">"Yes."</p> -<p class="indent">"Will it be difficult for you to carry out that rôle?"</p> +<p class="indent">"Will it be difficult for you to carry out that rôle?"</p> <p class="indent">"I—don't know what to do. Could you tell me?"</p> @@ -4178,7 +4138,7 @@ say it when we're alone—except for practice."</p> <p class="indent">"Who was he?"</p> -<p class="indent">"Mr. Grätz."</p> +<p class="indent">"Mr. Grätz."</p> <hr class="hr2" /> @@ -4426,7 +4386,7 @@ was concerned. And she had lost very little time in acquainting herself with his views upon the subject.</p> <p class="indent">That he had responded to the friendship she had so -naïvely offered did not surprise her. She seemed to +naïvely offered did not surprise her. She seemed to have expected it—perhaps in the peril of the moments when they were nearing London and doubt and suspicion in her mind concerning the contents of her satchel @@ -4580,16 +4540,16 @@ officer? Did you make it to General von Reiter?"</p> <p class="indent">"Where did you get them?"</p> -<p class="indent">"From—Mr. Grätz."</p> +<p class="indent">"From—Mr. Grätz."</p> <p class="indent">"You were accustomed to receive papers from Mr. -Grätz?"</p> +Grätz?"</p> <p class="indent">"Sometimes."</p> <p class="indent">"At certain intervals?"</p> -<p class="indent">"I don't know. Whenever Mr. Grätz telephoned, +<p class="indent">"I don't know. Whenever Mr. Grätz telephoned, Anna, my maid, went to London and usually brought back the—the plans."</p> @@ -4597,7 +4557,7 @@ back the—the plans."</p> <p class="indent">"Yes. I understood that they were plans of a new automobile which was being designed by the Edmeston -Agency for their Berlin branch. Mr. Grätz mentioned +Agency for their Berlin branch. Mr. Grätz mentioned it as the Bauer-Schroeder car."</p> <p class="indent">"To whom were these plans to go, ultimately?"</p> @@ -4645,7 +4605,7 @@ hesitated, troubled, twisting her fingers on her knees.</p> think I had better tell you, Kervyn. This is what frightened me—what the experience of today seemed to suddenly make plain to me—I mean your coming -to Westheath, Mr. Grätz telephoning about obeying +to Westheath, Mr. Grätz telephoning about obeying you, and informing me of the arrest of my maid—these things, and the war, and what I have read about German spies in England—all this flashed up in my @@ -4669,7 +4629,7 @@ England again—and he said—he said——"</p> And he said that in case war ever came while I was in England, and if, when it came, I had in my possession any automobile plans from the Edmeston Agency—from -Mr. Grätz—that I was to bring them with me +Mr. Grätz—that I was to bring them with me to Germany—not to show them to anybody, not to send them by mail, but to bring them back and deliver them to him."</p> @@ -4681,9 +4641,9 @@ was very serious. He said that on my obedience in this matter might depend the lives of many people. I had no idea what he meant by that—until today.... And what I fear has happened is that Anna, who went -yesterday to London because Mr. Grätz telephoned, +yesterday to London because Mr. Grätz telephoned, was arrested while in possession of papers delivered to -her by Mr. Grätz.... And that these papers were +her by Mr. Grätz.... And that these papers were <i>not</i> what I had always supposed. And that is why I was suddenly afraid—afraid—Oh, Kervyn!—I cannot describe the fear that leaped up and seized me when @@ -4694,7 +4654,7 @@ dressing-room—and steadied myself against the wall—feeling faint for a moment.</p> <p class="indent">"Then I took from my dressing-table the papers -which I had from Anna's last visit to Mr. Grätz. They +which I had from Anna's last visit to Mr. Grätz. They had remained there in the drawer because I had been told not to mail them, and no word had come for me to go back to Berlin. So I had them on my hands. @@ -5855,7 +5815,7 @@ which he had wrested from the papers which this young girl had been carrying—information amply sufficient to <span class="pagenum"><a name="page138" id="page138"></a>[pg 138]</span> convict her and to make inevitable the military execution -of the man Grätz and the grinning chauffeur, +of the man Grätz and the grinning chauffeur, Bush.</p> <p class="indent">And if the wretched maid, Anna, had been arrested @@ -5994,15 +5954,15 @@ the light and once more lay down on the bare mattress, using his arm for a pillow.</p> <p class="indent">But sleep eluded him for all his desperate weariness. -He thought of Grätz and of Bush and of the wretched +He thought of Grätz and of Bush and of the wretched woman involved by them and now a prisoner.</p> <p class="indent">The moment he turned over these papers to the British -Consul in Amsterdam the death warrant of Grätz +Consul in Amsterdam the death warrant of Grätz and Bush was signed. He knew that. He knew also that the papers in his possession were going to be delivered to British authority. But first he meant to give -Grätz and Bush a sporting chance to clear out.</p> +Grätz and Bush a sporting chance to clear out.</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page142" id="page142"></a>[pg 142]</span> Not because they had aided him. They cared nothing @@ -6046,7 +6006,7 @@ of the species he had known, but never a woman like this.</p> and hearing her speak. He could only place Karen on a social par with any woman he had ever known, and he was afraid she didn't belong there, because well-born -German Mädchens don't interne themselves in nun-like +German Mädchens don't interne themselves in nun-like seclusion far from Vaterland, Vater, and maternal apron-strings, with intervals of sallying forth into the world for a few months' diversion as a professional actress @@ -6492,11 +6452,11 @@ The letter was directed to the Edmeston Agency:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="smcap">Dear Sirs</span>:</p> -<p class="indent">Grätz and Bush must leave at once if they wish +<p class="indent">Grätz and Bush must leave at once if they wish to enjoy the fishing here. The <i>pike</i> are biting. <i>Four have been caught. The shooting, also, is excellent. Eight birds were killed yesterday.</i> If -Grätz and Bush do not leave within a week business +Grätz and Bush do not leave within a week business in London is likely to detain them indefinitely and they will miss their holiday with little chance for another.</p> @@ -6725,7 +6685,7 @@ your Consulate."</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page160" id="page160"></a>[pg 160]</span> He flushed, but his lips twitched humorously; "I am -sure that the United States very freely forgives Fräulein +sure that the United States very freely forgives Fräulein Girard."</p> <p class="indent">"Do <i>you</i>?"</p> @@ -6747,7 +6707,7 @@ Karen."</p> <p class="indent">And constraint fell between them once more, leaving him, however, faintly amused. She <i>could</i> be such a -<i>little</i> girl at times. And she was adorable in the rôle, +<i>little</i> girl at times. And she was adorable in the rôle, though she scarcely suspected it.</p> <p class="indent">At the American Consulate the cab stopped and Guild @@ -6782,7 +6742,7 @@ me to follow you to the American Consulate."</p> <p class="indent">"Who are <i>you</i>?"</p> -<p class="indent">"I served as one of the waiters in the saloon. Grätz +<p class="indent">"I served as one of the waiters in the saloon. Grätz knows me. If you are carrying any papers of value be careful."</p> @@ -7040,7 +7000,7 @@ the first station beyond.</p> <p class="indent">The basket contained a very delicious luncheon, and Karen looked up shyly but gratefully as Guild set about unpacking the various dishes. There was salad, chicken, -rolls and butter, a pâté, some very wonderful pastry, +rolls and butter, a pâté, some very wonderful pastry, fruit, and a bottle of Moselle that looked like liquid sunshine.</p> @@ -7399,10 +7359,10 @@ Guild?" asked the officer.</p> <p class="indent">"I am Herr Guild."</p> -<p class="indent">"And—gnädiges Fräulein?"—at salute and very +<p class="indent">"And—gnädiges Fräulein?"—at salute and very rigid.</p> -<p class="indent">"Fräulein Girard."</p> +<p class="indent">"Fräulein Girard."</p> <p class="indent">"The gracious young lady has credentials?—a ring, perhaps?"</p> @@ -7506,7 +7466,7 @@ strip of Belgium to the Luxembourg frontier.</p> uplands, gullies set with beech and hazel flew by under the watching stars.</p> -<p class="indent">Over the fields to the west lay what had been Liège. +<p class="indent">Over the fields to the west lay what had been Liège. But they swung east through Herve, past Ensival, then south by Theux, Stavelot, over the headwaters of the Ourthe.</p> @@ -8338,7 +8298,7 @@ at Quellenheim this very week. But yesterday his adjutant telegraphed that he could not come perhaps for many weeks. No doubt he was very busy chasing the French and English. It was a pity; because the autumn -is <i>wunderschön</i> at Quellenheim. And as for the +is <i>wunderschön</i> at Quellenheim. And as for the deer!—they stand even in the driveway and look at the Lodge, doubtless wondering, sir, why they are neglected by the hunters, and asking one another why good fat @@ -9103,7 +9063,7 @@ Oh! but she had a long, long reckoning to settle yet with him. She cast a swift glance backward, but already her girlhood was gone—gone with its simplicity, its quaint perplexities, its dear ignorance, its pathos, its -helplessness before experience, its naïveté, its faith.</p> +helplessness before experience, its naïveté, its faith.</p> <p class="indent">It had gone, slipped away, exhaled in a deep, unconscious sigh. And suddenly she flushed hotly, remembering @@ -9120,7 +9080,7 @@ her hair.</p> <p class="indent">Her thick, burnished hair was not in any desperate disorder, but she touched it here and there, patted, tucked, caressed it with light, swift fingers, delicately -precise as the exploring antennæ of a butterfly.</p> +precise as the exploring antennæ of a butterfly.</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page219" id="page219"></a>[pg 219]</span> "Give me my answer, Karen," he urged, in a low @@ -9586,7 +9546,7 @@ looking at him. His attitude was eloquent.</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page230" id="page230"></a>[pg 230]</span> "If you really do want me, I'll come," she said. "But you and Mr. Darrel will remain to luncheon, won't you? -I'll speak to the Frau Förster—if I may be excused—" +I'll speak to the Frau Förster—if I may be excused—" She fell for a moment again, unconsciously, into her quaint schoolgirl manner, and dropped them a little curtsey.</p> @@ -9656,7 +9616,7 @@ know where our landlord is or where to find him."</p> <p class="indent">"Is your landlord Belgian?"</p> -<p class="indent">"Yes. He is a wealthy brewer at Wiltz-la-Vallée. +<p class="indent">"Yes. He is a wealthy brewer at Wiltz-la-Vallée. And the Germans bombarded and burnt it—everything is in ruins and the people fled or dead. So we are really very much concerned about the possible fate of our @@ -9756,7 +9716,7 @@ with his wife and daughter.</p> <p class="indent">"That's why they continue to come. The place is part of their life. But I don't know what they'll do now. Monsieur Paillard, their landlord, hasn't been heard of -since the Germans bombarded and burnt Wiltz-la-Vallée. +since the Germans bombarded and burnt Wiltz-la-Vallée. Whether poor Paillard got knocked on the head by a rifle-butt or a 41-centimetre shell, or whether he was lined up against some garden wall with the other @@ -9764,7 +9724,7 @@ poor devils when the Prussian firing-squads sickened and they had to turn the machine-guns on the prisoners, nobody seems to know.</p> -<p class="indent">"Wiltz-la-Vallée is nothing but an ill-smelling heap of +<p class="indent">"Wiltz-la-Vallée is nothing but an ill-smelling heap of rubbish. The whole country is in a horrible condition. You know a rotting cabbage or beet or turnip field emits a bad enough smell. Add to that the stench from @@ -9823,7 +9783,7 @@ that will bring the Germans to Lesse Forest."</p> <p class="indent">"The Germans shoot franc-tireurs without court-martial."</p> <p class="indent">"I know it. And there has been sniping across the -border, everywhere, even since the destruction of Wiltz-la-Vallée. +border, everywhere, even since the destruction of Wiltz-la-Vallée. I expect there'll be mischief here sooner or later."</p> @@ -9907,7 +9867,7 @@ Courland, too."</p> <p class="indent">"Then talk to the Courlands. Something serious evidently has happened to their landlord. If he made himself personally obnoxious to the soldiery which -destroyed Wiltz-la-Vallée, a detachment might be sent +destroyed Wiltz-la-Vallée, a detachment might be sent here anyway to destroy Lesse Lodge. You can't tell what the Teutonic military mind is hatching. I was playing chess when they were arranging a shooting @@ -10531,7 +10491,7 @@ a cart for it. Which he did!—you senseless prevaricator!"</p> <p class="indent">"Oh, my!" said Darrel meekly.</p> <p class="indent">"And you're wearing a bandage below your knee -where the boar bit you when you gave him the coup-de-grâce! +where the boar bit you when you gave him the coup-de-grâce! Maxl washed and bound it for you! What a liar you are, Harry! Does it hurt?"</p> @@ -10544,7 +10504,7 @@ lightly.</p> <p class="indent">"He wasn't! You walk lame!"</p> -<p class="indent">"Laziness and gout account for that débutante slouch +<p class="indent">"Laziness and gout account for that débutante slouch of mine. But of course if you care to hold my hand——"</p> @@ -10626,7 +10586,7 @@ must know that it is in Belgium.</p> asked Guild.</p> <p class="indent">"Our men—some of them—from Ixl, from the Black -Erenz and the White, from Lesse—one from Liège. +Erenz and the White, from Lesse—one from Liège. And there is one, a stranger."</p> <p class="indent">"From where?"</p> @@ -10838,7 +10798,7 @@ my taste."</p> <p class="indent">"My friend, be careful that he is nothing more dangerous."</p> -<p class="indent">"Ah, sacré bleu!" exclaimed the forester, reddening to +<p class="indent">"Ah, sacré bleu!" exclaimed the forester, reddening to his white temples—"if any of that species had the temerity to come among us!——"</p> @@ -11204,7 +11164,7 @@ poisoned like a lion's mauling; and the sudden revelation of a hero under the shattered shell of modesty and self-depreciation which so long obscured the romantic qualities in this young man determined her to make him continue -to play a rôle which every girl adores—the rôle +to play a rôle which every girl adores—the rôle of the stricken brave.</p> <p class="indent">Never again could Darrel explain to her how timidity, @@ -11248,7 +11208,7 @@ at me now!"</p> <p class="indent">Karen was laughing, too, and now she turned to Guild: "Come," she said, smilingly; "we are not welcome here. Also I do want you to see the rose garden by star-light." -And to Mrs. Courland, naïvely: "May we please be excused +And to Mrs. Courland, naïvely: "May we please be excused to see your lovely garden?"</p> <p class="indent">The pretty young matron smiled and nodded, busy @@ -11415,7 +11375,7 @@ Mademoiselle. There is trouble."</p> <p class="indent">It was Schultz the herdsman; his rifle was in his hand and he wore two cartridge-belts crossed over his smock -en bandoulière.</p> +en bandoulière.</p> <p class="indent">He touched his hat to Karen, but turned immediately toward the star-lit sky-line where the dark coping of @@ -11797,7 +11757,7 @@ this house."</p> made a hopeless gesture: "I suppose <i>they</i> will destroy it, now. God knows. But if Monsieur Paillard be truly dead as we now believe, and his poor body lies rotting -under the ruins of Wiltz-la-Vallée, then there is nobody +under the ruins of Wiltz-la-Vallée, then there is nobody to mourn this house excepting the old forester, Michaud.... And I think he has lived on earth too long."</p> @@ -11824,7 +11784,7 @@ wait at the carrefour for you." And, to Darrel: <p class="indent">"Sent it to Quellenheim."</p> -<p class="indent">"<i>That rücksack, too?</i>"</p> +<p class="indent">"<i>That rücksack, too?</i>"</p> <p class="indent">"Yes."</p> @@ -12150,7 +12110,7 @@ against the granite cross.</p> <p class="indent">And now a more sinister thing occurred. Out from the forest, amid the stampeding game, reeled a man! His blue smock hung in ribbons; one bleeding fist -grasped a rifle; the cartridges en bandoulière glittered.</p> +grasped a rifle; the cartridges en bandoulière glittered.</p> <p class="indent">For a second he stood there, swaying, panting, bewildered in the smoke haze; then three non-coms fired @@ -12252,7 +12212,7 @@ of their rifle-fire continued to pelt the heights where bullets cracked and smacked on the rocks.</p> <p class="indent">"Enough," said Michaud quietly. "It is time to -leave. André, bring thou a bar to me."</p> +leave. André, bring thou a bar to me."</p> <p class="indent">A charcoal burner ran to the hole in the rocks and drew out a crowbar. Michaud took it, shoved it under @@ -12335,7 +12295,7 @@ with the artillery in the Scheldt forts. No German army could pass the outer ring of fortresses; the country <span class="pagenum"><a name="page300" id="page300"></a>[pg 300]</span> can be flooded. Also our King is there with his -Guides and Lancers and Chasseurs-à-cheval; the entire +Guides and Lancers and Chasseurs-à -cheval; the entire army is there. No, Monsieur, Antwerp is open to us if you desire to take us there."</p> @@ -12345,7 +12305,7 @@ than to engage in a Chasse aux Uhlans. If I could lead a dozen sturdy recruits into Antwerp it would be worth while. And, except for the post at Trois Fontaines and the troops patrolling the railway, I can not see why the -country is not open to us north of Liège."</p> +country is not open to us north of Liège."</p> <p class="indent">"I know this country. It is my country," said Michaud, "and troops or no troops I can take you across @@ -12460,7 +12420,7 @@ here from Trois Fontaines and ordered them across the Dutch frontier. I felt dreadfully; but there was nothing to do. So poor Mrs. Courland and her daughter and her servants have gone on toward Luxembourg with -all their luggage. I'm here alone with the Frau Förster. +all their luggage. I'm here alone with the Frau Förster. Shall I let you in?"</p> <p class="indent">"Did my luggage go to Luxembourg?"</p> @@ -12567,7 +12527,7 @@ going to try to make Antwerp, which is a quicker, and I think a surer, route than through Luxembourg and Holland. Besides, they <i>might</i> interne us. They would without a doubt if I were in uniform and if the Lesse -men came to the frontier with their guns and bandoulières."</p> +men came to the frontier with their guns and bandoulières."</p> <p class="indent">"Kervyn, how <i>can</i> you get to Antwerp? You can't <i>walk</i>, dear!"</p> @@ -12752,7 +12712,7 @@ papers I might have in my possession."</p> <span class="pagenum"><a name="page310" id="page310"></a>[pg 310]</span> Nobody did. I meant only that you were to bring with you what papers you had when you returned. Did -not Grätz instruct you to destroy your papers?"</p> +not Grätz instruct you to destroy your papers?"</p> <p class="indent">"No."</p> @@ -12772,7 +12732,7 @@ reach you; I could do nothing, make no arrangements. Cipher code was forbidden even from neutral countries. It was only at the last moment I found a secret wireless lane still open to us. In that way I managed to notify -Grätz that this man Guild was on his way to find +Grätz that this man Guild was on his way to find you and bring you back here; that no more papers were to be sent through you to me; and that what you had were to be destroyed. Did you hear from him at @@ -13264,10 +13224,10 @@ night.</p> to his own room. His mind seemed to clear again for a while and he said feebly but distinctly to his aide-de-camp:</p> -<p class="indent">"My daughter and her fiancé, the Comte d'Yvoir, are +<p class="indent">"My daughter and her fiancé, the Comte d'Yvoir, are going to Antwerp for their wedding. I remember that military trains now leave Trois Fontaines by way of -Trois Vierges, Liège, and Lesten. We control to Lesten, +Trois Vierges, Liège, and Lesten. We control to Lesten, I think."</p> <p class="indent">"Yes, Excellence."</p> @@ -13437,7 +13397,7 @@ troops encamped in fields. But nothing of the ravage and desolation which blackened the land farther south was apparent.</p> -<p class="indent">In the latitude of Liège, however, Guild could see +<p class="indent">In the latitude of Liège, however, Guild could see from the car windows the occasional remains of ruined bridges damming small streams; and here and there roofless and smoke-stained walls, or the blackened debris @@ -14012,388 +13972,7 @@ unless otherwise noted.</p> <p class="indent">On page 274, a quotation mark was added after "I remember."</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Who Goes There!, by Robert W. 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