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Our victory is ordained by God, and we are none of us more than His instruments. Stumm translated in a sentence, and his voice was quite solemn. He held up his right hand and so did Gaudian, like a man taking an oath or a parson blessing his congregation. Then I realized something of the might of Germany.

Stumm had spoken of the same personage with respect and in connection with the work I proposed to do in raising the Moslem Africans. If I found von Einem I would be getting very warm. What was the word that Stumm had whispered to Gaudian and scared that worthy? It had sounded like uhnmantl. If I could only get that clear, I would solve the riddle. I think that discovery completed my cure.

He promptly wrote down 'v. Then I told them of the other name Stumm and Gaudian had spoken. I told of my discovery as I lay in the woodman's cottage. 'The "I" is not the letter of the alphabet, but the numeral. The name is Von Einem Hilda von Einem. 'Good old Harry, said Sandy softly. 'He was a dashed clever chap. Hilda von Einem? Who and where is she? for if we find her we have done the trick.

But probably he was a big man in his own line, whatever it was, for the Under-Secretary fellow had talked small in his presence, and so great a man as Gaudian clearly respected him. There must be no lack of brains inside that funny pyramidal head. As I sat beside the stove I was casting back to think if I had got the slightest clue to my real job. There seemed to be nothing so far.

They were so bitter about Britain and all her works that I gathered they were getting pretty panicky, and that made me as jolly as a sandboy. I'm afraid I was not free from bitterness myself on that subject. I said things about my own country that I sometimes wake in the night and sweat to think of. Gaudian got on to the use of water power in war, and that gave me a chance.

He had untidy grizzled hair and a ragged beard, and a pair of pleasant, short-sighted brown eyes. 'Welcome, my Colonel, he said. 'Is this the friend you spoke of? 'This is the Dutchman, said Stumm. 'His name is Brandt. Brandt, you see before you Herr Gaudian. I knew the name, of course; there weren't many in my profession that didn't.

For he had spoken the words which Stumm had uttered behind his hand to Gaudian. I had heard something like 'Uhnmantl, and could make nothing of it. Now I was as certain of those words as of my own existence.

Gaudian was clearly a good fellow, a white man and a gentleman. I could have worked with him for he belonged to my own totem. But the other was an incarnation of all that makes Germany detested, and yet he wasn't altogether the ordinary German, and I couldn't help admiring him. I noticed he neither smoked nor drank. His grossness was apparently not in the way of fleshly appetites.

He pointed to the slip on the table. 'You have seen the orders? I nodded. 'The long day's work is over. You must rejoice, for your part has been the hardest, I think. Some day you will tell me about it? The man's face was honest and kindly, rather like that of the engineer Gaudian, whom two years before I had met in Germany.

Besides, I had once been on the point of undertaking a job up Tanganyika way, and I had got up that country-side pretty accurately. 'You say that with our help you can make trouble for the British on the three borders? Gaudian asked at length. 'I can spread the fire if some one else will kindle it, I said. 'But there are thousands of tribes with no affinities. 'They are all African.