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And what business has a conscientious objector to be spy-hunting? Do I understand that you will only help your country when you can do it vicariously, through the police, with no risk to yourself? It isn't very dignified." "A spy is outside every pale," said the stranger. "My conscience objects to the shedding of blood. Yet it is an English conscience all the same." "English?" said Anonyma.
"We won't argue about it," said Chester, smiling. "But you never can tell what will happen." Uncle John changed the subject abruptly. When the conversation reached this stage he always felt uncomfortable. "When are you going to start spy-hunting?" he asked. Chester looked at Hal. "What do you think?" he inquired. "Well, I should say not until to-night," replied Hal.
Yes, but a brave man who went rather well to his death through the sunlit streets of Paris, with the angry murmurs of a crowd rising in waves about him. On the same night I saw another episode of this spy-hunting period, and it was more curious.
Towards the end of August there began to be a notion that the city was full of spies, and all suspected persons were called Prussians. The mania for spy-hunting became general, and was frequently very inconvenient to Americans and Englishmen. Germans in Paris, many of whom had intermarried with the French, naturally found themselves in a most unhappy situation.
The word, too, has associations that are ugly, and I fancy that our spies do not boast of their service, but spy-hunting is a service that has no taint, and there is much satisfaction both to the conscience and intellect in routing out the underground worker who, for "filthy lucre," would sell the blood of his fellow man.
There were, too, a few rowing-boats for passengers, but these were either on the other side when you wanted them or were too full of holes to use. Patrol-duty and spy-hunting were our principal occupations, as in most of the other Canal stations; certainly few dreamed of the greatness in store.
We are so new in the game that our methods in spy-hunting are clumsy, and we frequently give warning to the brains of the system to seek cover when we strike at its puppets.
"Better not," said Stair, "you are on our side, you say. Take care and do not forget again, or the next time you will not be missed. I shall go spy-hunting myself." "I swear to you " he began, gasping at the thought. "Do not swear I would not believe you if you swore on a pile of Bibles as high as Criffel!" "But you would believe my uncle Kennedy on his bare word "
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