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"After all," he reasoned, "it is no crime for a man to pick up a card that a lady drops on his table." Crime or no crime, however, it looked very much as if he had committed some grave offence when, the next day, his detective drove up in a carriage, accompanied by a uniformed official, and requested the astounded American to accompany them to the police headquarters. "What for?" he asked.
I regretfully sighed that I would go back to Berlin and get a pass, and retracing my steps to the station I bought a ticket. A soldier and an Unteroffizier were stationed near the box in which stood the uniformed woman who punches tickets. The Unteroffizier looked at me sharply, "No train for an hour and a half," he said.
Five minutes passed the number of passengers did not increase; ten minutes; a distant shriek the hoarse inquiry of the inspector had the Herr's companions yet gekommt? the sudden glare of a Cyclopean eye in the darkness, the ongliding of the long-jointed and gleaming spotted serpent, the train a hurried glance around the platform, one or two guttural orders, the slamming of doors, the remounting of black uniformed figures like caryatides along the marchepieds, a puff of vapor, and the train had come and gone without them.
Two English doctors from a hospital ship, white haired and uniformed, were disregarding their repast in order to paint directly in their albums, with a childish painstaking crudeness, the same panorama that was portrayed on the postal cards offered for sale at the door of the restaurant. A fat-bellied bottle with a petticoat of straw and a long neck attracted Freya's hands to the table.
This regiment is uniformed in gray cloth, almost identical with that of the great bulk of the secession army; and, when the regiment fell into confusion and retreated toward the road, there was a universal cry that they were being fired on by our own men. The regiment rallied again, passed the brow of the hill a second time, but was again repulsed in disorder.
This was a point on which the Germans were inexorable; everyone caught with arms in his hands and not belonging to some uniformed organization was shot without the formality of a trial, as having violated the law of nations.
I don't know what would happen if anything came up suddenly...." A blue-gray uniformed arm, with a major's cuff-braid, came into the screen, handing a slip of paper to M'zangwe; he took it, glanced at it, and swore. Von Schlichten waited until he had read it through. "Well, something has, all right," the African said.
Nothing more was said on the subject, though the five boys did considerable thinking. Toward five o'clock they came in sight of Ashbury. A few minutes later they had reached a point where the highway turned into one of the streets of the town. Here a uniformed bell-boy from the Ashbury Terraces Hotel approached them. "Is Mr. Prescott in this party?" he inquired. "That's my name," Dick answered.
"The various regiments were brilliantly uniformed according to the aesthetic taste of peace," wrote General Fry, then an officer on McDowell's staff, and "during the nineteenth and twentieth the bivouacs at Centreville, almost within cannon range of the enemy, were thronged with visitors, official and unofficial, who came in carriages from Washington, were under no military restraint, and passed to and fro among the troops as they pleased, giving the scene the appearance of a monster military picnic."
In the gloom below her she saw only soldiers and uniformed Capitol watchmen. Across from her in the upper hall where she waited there was the entrance to the wing which contained the Executive Chambers. Two men, one of whom was talking earnestly, came along the corridor from the direction of the chambers.
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