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Elsa sniffed in a er raised his head with a sheepish laugh

"I guess I'ry and tired out," exclaier and have so fresh plates and an extra chair and the interrupted er?" asked Elsa "We saw you start straight across the valley"

"I got as far as the river I didn't do Ernest any real dauess not He seems to have worked around, as usual He and Gustav went into Archer's Springs yesterday"

There was a er?"

Roger laid down his knife and fork, dejectedly "I don't kno could a man like Ernest do such a rotten trick!"

"He refused to make us any explanation whatever," said Dick "As far as I'h with him unless he comes across with a satisfactory staterees with Dick and me," Charley looked at Elsa's troubled face syot to be kept in Coventry until so that you'd coer finished his second cup of coffee in deep thought "I'll have to have a talk with Ernest," he said, finally

"Hackett brought in the new puht a bunch of newspapers We've been floored by their contents"

"Yes," exclaimed Charley, "the war news is unbelievable"

"They've sacked Louvain!" cried Elsa

"Who sacked Louvain? It sounds like the Dark Ages!" asked Roger

"The Ger her voice with difficulty went on, "They've shot old wos to the Dark Ages It's unbelievable! And the library--all those priceless things are burned"

"Good God!" exclaier Then, "What does Ernest say to this?"

"None of us have talked to him since you left," said Charley

"But whether it's a war of offense or defense, there's no excuse for that sort of thing I thought Gerer paused and Elsa cut in excitedly-"Culture! I tell you they never were cultured, the Germans Look at Professor Rosenthal and Dad and Ernest How deep is their so-called culture? Bah! Petty tyrants in their hoes, I'll bet, if they run amuck"

"Keep your hair on, Elsa, old dear" Dick patted the excited girl on the shoulder