. He could only swerve his course enough to avoid actually falling into the open door through which fuel had

ed over the ground, dragging with hi

is phlegmatic attitude and springing forwa

rned hand and casting a glance of extr

tly began. "You big sauer kraut eater. You don't seem to know that clothes cost m

Otto doggedly; "my orders iss to burn dot uniform, und dot's

ckles were scarcely distinguishable. "You can burn the old uniform as fast as you

g garments from The Wolf. He evidently intended to take matters strictly into his o

atter, although he had no objection to the ultimate burning of the

e directed his attention to a search of the garments. He thrust his uninjured hand into one pocket after another, frantically groping

e had dominated his movements, and now he moved forward with the ponderous motions of the average German agriculturist, although it w

y as he grasped the packet and attempt

his beloved orders had not been obeyed, "you haf got it, und now

Jimmie's response. "I'm through with the

resembling the greeting usually given a tramp by a bulldog,

orned Jimmie. "I've seen lots of armies

hat he had evidently picked up during his experience on the

o merely as a guide, and had not thought it possible for him to act in any other capacity. Now he understood that the German intended to do him bodily harm, if possible. Quickly as the realization of his danger flashed through the boy's active

ecollection of Ned Nestor's training and the drills to which he h

into his ribs and shut off his heart action. Again Jimmie recalled vividly his experiences in trying to break a "body scissors" on

at receiving a blow on the chin from Jimmie's red head. Butting in a fight was a part of "the game" that th

ting to keep one foot in action as he industriously pegged away at the foot upon which his heel had fir

have left his body. In place of lungs the boy felt he had only a great raging fur

to escape the onslaught of kicks and blows from Jimmie's active head. As he released th

discarded and partly burned uniform that had been the innocent cause of the battl

that the Russian uniform had been the mean

This quality so dominated the lad that his comrades often declared he would laugh at his own expense even when he was hungry. Just now

. These bystanders now offered words of encouragement in an effort to prolong the battle. It seemed that the dominating spirit of battle had not been

erstand, and that for very shame, if for no other reason, the other man would return to the conflict. He therefore drew a deep breath and braced himself for the expected advance. S

immie let fly a stinging hook that fell short of its intended mark. Instead of landing on Otto's chin, as he had purposed, Jimmie flun

a shower of blows, each one in a telling spot about Otto's head. The lad's ire was f

the burly German on anything like an equal footing, and consequently determined to p

s looking for an opening through which he might slip a "knockout," and gave no heed to the events transpiring about him. Hence he did

hen I am not present!" Jimmie heard the m

necht!" he gasped

use. "It seems to me," he went on in a severe tone, his pale blue eyes narrowing to mere

ng held in leash and thoroughly muzzled by Ned Nestor's training and Jimmie's own sel

impertinent response. "This fool Dutchman go

on Liebknecht. "No

t the same," was Jimm

be my pleasant duty to see that you get your full share of regular work, and in ad

ugh to be a policema

the face of the of

to be a German, you would have been much bigger and perhaps more r

irit already shown. He therefore drew himself up to his full height and gravely saluted, using the well-known Bo

cision in the least. A rapidly spoken order to an aide standing near resulted in Jimmie'

ane resting in an open space. Forms were

ing through a sort of setting-up exercise. Again and again h