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The bow-oar of the German boat, who had a blood-stained bandage round his head, also stared. "Engländer!" he said. "Verdammte Schweine!" and added, "Fünf! ..." whereupon he and his companions also averted their heads, because they were four. They passed each other thus. The waves that washed over the raft rolled the dead man's head to and fro, as if he found the situation rather preposterous.
"No," said Herr Heinrich, sitting down into the automobile, "I will part with you altogether. It is too much...." "Auf Wiedersehen!" cried Mr. Britling. "Remember, whatever happens there will be peace at last!" "Then why not at the beginning?" Herr Heinrich demanded with a reasonable exasperation and repeated his maturer verdict on the whole European situation; "Verdammte Bummelei!"
It was not so bad there now, he remarked negligently, and, he went on drawling, "There's some sort of white vagabond has got in there, I hear. . . . Eh? What you say? Friend of yours? So! . . . Then it was true there was one of these verdammte What was he up to? Found his way in, the rascal. Eh? I had not been sure. Patusan they cut throats there no business of ours."
A story was told at the time about a couple of German officers, one of them attached to the embassy, who happening to find themselves face to face with an individual presenting a striking likeness to the kaiser, save for the fact that his moustache was twisted downwards instead of upwards, and his hair brushed in a different way, lost to such an extent their presence of mind that they could not help drawing their heels together and standing at attention; a form of courtesy which received as its only response the muttered exclamation of "Verdammte Esel!" which may be translated: "Accursed jackasses!"
"I have deferred my service until I have done my thesis," said Herr Heinrich. "Now all that will be Piff! And my thesis three-quarters finished." "That is serious," said Teddy. "Verdammte Dummheit!" said Herr Heinrich. "Why do they do such things?"
It was a common thing for them, we are told, on capturing a prisoner, to address him as "Schweinhund" or "Verdammte Engländer," or by some other good-humoured phrase of the same kind. I regret to say that some Englishmen were so deficient in the sense of humour that, instead of taking this in the spirit in which it was offered, they bitterly resented it.
When twelve o'clock struck in the church round the corner the meeting was broken up. Herr Lutz said to Peter, "There is still the 'verdammte' fog. Together we will go part of the way." So they went together. But on the top of the dark and crooked staircase Herr Gottfried stopped Peter.
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