"That's one reason I want to get
you away from here. I want to see the Kaiser licked properly."
"You don't mean to insinuate--"
"That you are aiding the Kaiser?" Stubbs broke in. "I guess not. But you
know as well as I do that with you here something is sure to go wrong. No
sir. You've got to go back to the old U.S.A. and you're going to go if it
lies in my power to get you there."
"By Jove!" said Chester, suddenly. "I know the answer."
"Well, you're a good guesser if you do," said Hal, dryly. "Let's hear
it."
"Uncle John is the answer," declared Chester. "In some manner he has
learned we are here; he has come up from Italy and bribed Stubbs to get
us sent home."
"By Jove!" exclaimed Hal. "Is that it, Stubbs?"
Stubbs grinned at them.
"Come," he said, "I'm too old to be fooled with such innocence as that.
You know what you're here for and that's all there is about it. Now I'm
going to arrange for your removal."
"Stubbs," said Hal, quietly, "I wonder if you could guess what I
think of you?"
"I'm afraid I could," returned the little man seriously. "But now let me
ask you something. Do you remember, not so many nights ago, that I told
you both that if ever you found me doing something you didn't approve of,
I would be doing it for your own good--because I am fond of you? Do you
remember that?"
"You bet I remember it," declared Hal; "and all I've got to say is that
if you call this thing for our own good you're mightily mistaken.
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