Part 5 (1/2)

'That is good talk,' said our entertainer, and his close-set eyes flashed 'There is roo now, I beg to know'

'To Holland,' I said 'Then o to Germany We are tired with travel andand our chance will conificantly 'A shi+p sails too with her'

This hat I wanted, for if we stayed in Lisbon soaff

'I recommend you to sail in the Machado,' he repeated 'There is work for you in Germany-oh yes, much work; but if you delay the chance e your journey It is my business to help the allies of my fatherland'

He wrote down our nas contributed by Peter, who required two h He was a Bavarian, it seemed, and we drank to the health of Prince Rupprecht, the sa to do in at Loos That was an irony which Peter unfortunately could not appreciate If he could he would have enjoyed it

The little chap saw us back to our hotel, and ith us the next ot on board about two in the afternoon, but onBritish subjects and rebels at that, we did not want to run any risks on board, assuht us up and searched us But Peter took twenty pounds off hi his rule never to yptians

As ere dropping down the Tagus we passed the old Henry the Navigator

'I ,' said Peter, 'and he told me a little Ger up the passenger list Yon was a right notion of yours, Cornelis I a Germans They are careful people whom it is a pleasure to meet'

CHAPTER FOUR

Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose

The Germans, as Peter said, are a careful people A man met us on the quay at Rotterdaht have turned up in Lisbon to discredit us, and that our little friend ram But apparently all was serene

Peter and I had e We had talked nothing but Dutch, and had kept up between ourselves the role of Maritz's men, which Peter said was the only way to play a part well Upon ot to Holland I was not very clear in er was that the other side of et atrophied, and that I should soon be mentally on a par with the ordinary backveld desperado

We had agreed that it would be best to get into Gerent on the quay told us of a train at midday we decided to take it

I had another fit of cold feet before we got over the frontier At the station there was a King's Messenger whom I had seen in France, and a war correspondent who had been trotting round our part of the front before Loos I heard a wolish, which a crows There were copies of the English papers for sale, and English cheap editions I felt pretty bad about the whole business, and wondered if I should ever see these hoain

But theday, and as we crawled through the flat pastures of HollandPeter's questions He had never been in Europe before, and for He said he reckoned that such land would carry four sheep a en We were thick in talk e reached the frontier station and jolted over a canal bridge into Ger barricade with barbed wire and entrench to see on the Gerrey I had hunted at Loos An under-officer, with the black-and-gold button of the Landsturm, hoicked us out of the train, and ere all shepherded into a big bare waiting-rooe stove burned They took us two at a time into an inner room for examination I had explained to Peter all about this forether, for they made us strip to the skin, and I had to curse him pretty seriously to make him keep quiet The hty thorough They took down a list of all we had in our pockets and bags, and all the details froiven us

We were dressing when a man in a lieutenant's uniform came in with a paper in his hand He was a fresh-faced lad of about twenty, with short-sighted spectacled eyes

'Herr Brandt,' he called out

I nodded