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A ghastly affair, I'll admit, but everything can be settled." "Has Admiral Tresize mentioned a letter which he received from Vienna a day or two ago?" I asked. "Yes," replied Bob, "but of course it was pure imagination. Do you know, I admire the Kaiser. He's a good man, a religious man." I coughed.
"And the Fatherland? Ever want to go back?" "Wail, I tell you dose ting, Meest'r Ennixter. Alle-ways, I tink a lot oaf Shairmany, und der Kaiser, und nef'r I forgedt Gravelotte. Budt, say, I tell you dose ting. Vhair der wife is, und der kinder der leedle girl Hilda DERE IS DER VATERLAND. Eh?
We made speeches, we proclaimed the moral verities or explained them. The echoes of vast or petty news went by in us. In the streets, the garrison officers walked, grown taller, disclosed. It was announced that Major de Trancheaux had rejoined, in spite of his years, and that the German armies had attacked us in three places at once. We cursed the Kaiser and rejoiced in his imminent chastisement.
While he was standing alone, waiting to be assigned to his prison, or whatever fate awaited him, the Kaiser came up. "Hello," said the Kaiser. "Who have we here?" "I'm an Irishman, your honor." Then he winked solemnly. "Oi say," he continued. "We didn't do a thing to you Germans, did we? Eh, old chap?" The Kaiser was horrified.
"Wouldn't it be better for you to stay, put on a uniform, take up a rifle and fight for our Kaiser and Fatherland?" John shook his head and put on the preternaturally wise look of the light-witted. "I'm no soldier," he replied. "Why weren't you called? You're of the right age." "A little weakness of the heart. I cannot endure the great strain, but I can drive the cattle."
We'll tell him we'rre herre to back the Kaiser, hey?" "S'pose he's a Frenchman that belongs in Alsace," Tom queried. "Then we'll add on out o' France. We'll say look out for that rock! We'll just say we'rre herre to back the Kaiser, and if he looks sourr we'll say; out o' France. Back the Kaiser out o' France. We win either way, see?
Next day Prince Leopold made his triumphal entry, and the first year of the war closed on the Eastern front with an event of greater significance even than that which the Kaiser attached to it.
The time-worn veteran did not again assume office, but he was the frequent recipient of appreciative mention by the kaiser in public rescripts and speeches, and on his seventy-ninth birthday, April 1,1894, he received from the emperor a greeting by letter and a steel cuirass, "as a symbol of the German gratitude."
"There is no doubt about the control," said the Kaiser. "It is marvellous, and I think the Chancellor and the Field Marshal will agree with me in that." "Wonderful," said the Chancellor. "A miracle," said the Field Marshal, "if it can only be realised." "There is no doubt about that, gentlemen," said Castellan, going back to the machine.
"he whimpered all the time," and she was able to give him a good deal of her mind on the war and the behaviour of his troops. He and the others, she said, were always talking about their Kaiser; "one might have thought they saw him sitting on the clouds." In two or three days the French returned victorious, to find the burnt and outraged village.
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