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But at the same time he was conscious of a sinking sensation. "Yes, it is," said Archer; "it's coming right for us." "Maybe they're just rowing across," said Tom. Archer watched the boat intently. "It's coming herre all right," he said; "we'rre pinched. Let's get inside, anyway." Tom smiled with a kind of sickly resignation. "Let's see," he said; "yes, you're right, they've got uniforms, too.
And all of a sudden I thought how you walked back toward the house with herr that night and and do you think I don't understand you darrned big chump?" "Do you know what I think?" said Archer. "If Alsace used to belong to France, then the Rhine must have been the boundary between France and Gerrmany and we'rre right on that old frontierr now hey? I'm a smarrt lad, huh?
Evidently they had not come for the fugitives and the thought occurred to Archer that they might be fugitives themselves. "Vell, vat you do here, huh?" one asked. Archer was managing this affair and he managed it in his own sweet way. "We're herre because we're herre," he said, in a perfect riot of rolling R's. "You German no?" "No, thank goodness! We'rre not," Archer said recklessly.
"S'pose we should meet some one?" Archer suggested, as he followed Tom's lead over the rocky ledges. "Not up here," said Tom. "You can see lights way off south and maybe we'll have to pass through some villages tomorrow night, but not tonight. We'll only do about twelve miles tonight if it keeps up like this." "S'pose somebody should see us when we'rre going through a village?
"This Hun forest has got Aladdin's cave beat twenty ways," said Archer. "Either we'rre crazy or this place is." Suddenly the bright thought occurred to Tom to look at his compass. Unless the magnetic pole had changed its position, and the whole earth gone askew, they were tramping northward, as he saw to his unutterable amazement.
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?
So it ain't a question of what we'rre goin' to do; it's a question of: Are you with me? You're always tellin' when yourr thoughts come to you. Well, I got that one just before I dived for the glass. So that's the way I'm going to invest my chance, 'cause I haven't got anything else to give.... I heard in prison about the Liberty Bond buttons they give you to wearr back home.
"If I was sure about that being the other shore over there, we could swim across." "It would be betterr to get around if we could," said Archer, "because if we'rre goin' wherre people arre we don't want our uniforms all soaked." "I'm not going to try to find her, if that's what you mean," said Tom; "not unless you say so too, anyway." "What d'you s'pose I dived forr that glass forr?"
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