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The frantic Deutschers and their Fraus danced like mad things Tyrolese waltzes and old-fashioned quadrilles. There was a great deal of singing in praise of Vaterland and Freundschaft, with no end of "Hochs!" They kept it up, I was told, until broad daylight, dispersing about eight o'clock in the morning. The Germans also give an annual picnic, which is a great event in the place.
This is pretty well for a flight of inductive genius, but it is quite surpassed by the soaring Teutonic mind before mentioned, who, in the words of the reflective Breitmann, Dinks so deeply As only Deutschers can. This mighty philosopher, of whom Mr.
Cartels, pronunciamientos, challenges, flags of truce, and proposals for waffenstillstands, as the Deutschers call it they've all gone through my hands, and never one, gone awry. 'Indeed! quoth my father. 'You are yourself one of the faithful? 'I trust that I am one of those who are on the narrow and thorny track, said he, speaking through his nose, as was the habit of the extreme sectaries.
"I can't say I approve of your way of doing things, Monica," she observed, but less severely than before, "and I can't think what an English officer wants in my bedroom at ten minutes of two in the morning, but if those Deutschers want to find him, perhaps I can understand!" Here she smiled affectionately on the beautiful girl at my side. "Ah! Mary, you're a dear," replied Monica.
No doubt framed editions of this photograph are reposing on some Hun mantelpieces, showing clearly and unmistakably to admiring strafers how a group of perfidious English surrendered unconditionally on Christmas Day to the brave Deutschers.
"Say, but I like to think of the way we fooled them Deutschers," he chuckled. He kept on chuckling to himself whilst I took off my boots and began to undress. "That there is your bed," he said, pointing; "the footman used to sleep there but they grabbed him for the army. There's a pair of Mr. Gerry's pyjamas for you and you'll find a cup of cocoa down warming by the fire.
I explained the idea of the attack to him, and the part we had to play. The troops on our right were going to carry out the actual attack, and we, on their left flank, were going to lend assistance by engaging the Deutschers in front and by firing half-right to cover our men's advance. My job was clear enough.
I don't often see a gentleman in this dawg-gorn country, and when I do I know how to treat him." He wouldn't listen to me, but stumped off down the stairs. As he went I heard him murmuring to himself: "Gee! but we surely fooled those Deutschers some!" I drank this admirable fellow's cocoa; I warmed myself at his fire.
"You won't catch any Deutschers fooling Mary Prendergast," said the jovial lady in the bed; "but, children, what next?" Monica spoke quite calmly. She was always perfectly self-possessed. "My brother is stopping with me in our apartment in the Bendler-Strasse," she said. "You remember Gerry, Des he got all smashed up flying, you know, and is practically a cripple.
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