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Updated: May 6, 2025
A scare bulletin about the Bodlapoo affair compelling attention as his car halted to let the traffic of a cross street pass, he bought a newspaper thrust in at the car window that contained the answer of the government of the Browns to a despatch of the Grays about the dispute that had arisen in the distant African jungle. This he had already read two days previously, by courtesy of the premier.
"Yes, I planned all, step by step, till I was chief of staff and ready. I convinced the premier that it was time to strike and I chose the hour to strike; for Bodlapoo was only a convenient excuse for the last of all the steps" The subjective enjoyment of the declaration kept him from any keen notice of the effect of his words. Lanny was right.
"I confess that it hardly seems reasonable to make war over the Bodlapoo affair!" This from the judge's son. "Over some hot weather, some swamp, and some black policemen in Africa," said Hugo. "But they hauled down our flag!" exclaimed the army officer's son. "On their territory, they say. We were the aggressors," Hugo interposed. "It was our flag!" said Eugene.
Thus the hours wore on, and the church clock struck nine and ten. "Never a movement down there!" called the sergeant from the crest to Dellarme. "Maybe this is just their final bluff before they come to terms about Bodlapoo" that stretch of African jungle that seemed very far away to them all. "Let us hope so!" said Dellarme seriously. "Hope there won't be any war!
The flag is sacred!" cried the banker's son. "Yes, that will do!" "Shut up!" Other voices formed a chorus of angry protest. "I knew you thought it; now I've caught you!" This from the sergeant, who had seen hard fighting against a savage foe in Africa and therefore was particularly bitter about the Bodlapoo affair.
They had guarded the stretches of hot sand in one of the desert African colonies of the Browns; and they had served in the jungle in the region of Bodlapoo, which, by the way, was nominally the cause of the war. They had fought Mohammedan fanatics and black savages. It did not matter much to them when they died; now as well as ever.
But he spoke tentatively, nevertheless. He was taking no risks. "Oh, if we went to war the Bodlapoo affair would be only an excuse," said the manufacturer's son. "We shall go to war as a matter of broad national policy." "Right you are!" agreed the banker's son. "No emotion about it. Emotion as an international quantity is dead. Everything is business now in this business age."
"I ought to," replied the premier. "That was the purpose of the semi-official communiqué about Bodlapoo, which, of course, we can repudiate later, if need be. I saw that the brilliant forced march of our commander had excited popular enthusiasm. It does not matter if he were in the wrong. Will race feeling rise to the pitch of war from this touchstone with the proper urging?
"Their government would only have been convinced of an easier conquest, and by this time they would have been up to the main line of defence. Marta, when the diplomatic history of the war is known it will be found that the Gray government struck as a matter of cold, deliberate intention. Bodlapoo was only an excuse to carry out a plan of conquest."
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