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I thought he didn't understand what had happened, so I beat him on the shoulders. 'Man, d'you see? I cried. 'The Cossacks! The Cossacks! God! How they're taking that slope! They're into them now. By heaven, we'll ride with them! We'll get the gun horses! A little knoll prevented Stumm and his men from seeing what was happening farther up the glen, till the first wave of the rout was on them.
They would not assault so long as we remained in the castrol, but they would block any attempt to find safety outside it. Stumm and his gun had us at their mercy. We crouched below the parapet again. 'We may as well toss for it, I said. 'There's only two ways to stay here and be shelled or try to break through those fellows behind. Either's pretty unhealthy. But I knew there was no choice.
Then he gave me coffee and ham and good bread, and he looked at my map. "What is this?" he cried, growing red in the face. "It is the staff-map of one Stumm, a German skellum who commands in yon city," I said. 'He looked at it close and read the markings, and then he read the other paper which you gave me, Dick. And then he flung up his arms and laughed.
Our victory is ordained by God, and we are none of us more than His instruments. Stumm translated in a sentence, and his voice was quite solemn. He held up his right hand and so did Gaudian, like a man taking an oath or a parson blessing his congregation. Then I realized something of the might of Germany.
Stumm appeared with his host, and we went in to supper. I was jolly hungry and would have made a good meal if I hadn't constantly had to keep jogging my wits. The other two talked in German, and when a question was put to me Stumm translated. The first thing I had to do was to pretend I didn't know German and look listlessly round the room while they were talking.
As fast as others are at liberty, hold them for orders." "Yes, sir." "Go!" "Yes, sir." Presently came another telegram: SAGE CORNERS, N. Y., 10.30. Just arrived. Elephant passed through here at 8.15. All escaped from the town but a policeman. Apparently elephant did not strike at policeman, but at the lamp-post. Got both. I have secured a portion of the policeman as clue. STUMM, Detective.
In December and January last records of the news despatches in the American newspapers from Berlin show that the Overseas agency was more active than all American correspondents in Berlin. Secretary of State Zimmermann, Under-secretaries von dem Busche and von Stumm gave frequent interviews to the so-called "representatives of the Overseas News Agency."
I saw an electric torch flashed, and Stumm himself got out and examined the tracks on the highway. Thank God, they would be still there for him to find, but had he tried half a dozen yards on he would have seen them turn towards the sandpit. If that had happened he would have beaten the adjacent woods and most certainly found me. There was a third man in the car, with my hat and coat on him.
The English run about the world with little expeditions. I do not know where the places are, though I read of them in the papers. But I know my Africa. You want to beat them here in Europe and on the seas. Therefore, like wise generals, you try to divide them and have them scattered throughout the globe while you stick at home. That is your plan? 'A second Falkenhayn, said Stumm, laughing.
I thought of stretching my legs in the corridor, and was just getting up to do it when somebody slid the door back and a big figure blocked the light. He was wearing a heavy ulster and a green felt hat. He saluted Stumm, who looked up angrily, and smiled pleasantly on us both. 'Say, gentlemen, he said, 'have you room in here for a little one?
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