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“Order your dinner in your suite tonight so you uard while I sleep”

Wagner, who sang in his church choir and had an ear for voices, heard soh Geruttural, with the expected educated flair, now and then the tones of the Prussian upper crust roughened like a peasant’s “Shall I order food for you, too?”

“Don’t be ridiculous One passenger doesn’t eat two meals”

“I ht have dinner, too”

“I’ll eat yours”

“Yes, of course I see” He heard Donar walk from the bathroom into his bedroom

“Wipe up that coal dust before the bath steward sees it”

Herot down on his hands and knees to scrub his own bathroo he had not done since he elve years old, in the strict boarding school his father had sent him to “make him hard”

He did notthe elite diplomats, bankers, and merchants drafted into the Donar Plan Admittedly, he was no soldier Nor was he privy to the details of the military scheme But he could travel freely in the United States of Ale in the highest echelons

Der Tag was co Victory depended not only on soldiers There would be no victory unless a patriot like Herner did his part to persuade Americans to join the war on Germany’s side — or at least stay out of it while Germany destroyed Russia, France, and Britain

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At dawn the need Isaac Bell slipped silently out of bed, kissed his sleeping bride softly on her brow, dressed quietly, and went out on the proain Long, evenly spaced rollers ed clouds stacked on the horizon like ice-capped , and the smoke from Mauretania’s tall red funnels streamed flat behind her

He went straight to the point on the starboard side that the man who jumped from the boat deck would have passed as he fell Soed to land safely on the proh that did not seem possible, as the boat deck was not set back and the promenade deck did not thrust farther out But Beiderbecke had called him an acrobat

Bell paced the area, his eyes roaht, that the Akrobat was a real acrobat Assume he was a trained circus tu, astonishingly agile, with no fear of heights and nerves of steel

Bell sripped by a fond memory He had run away from home to join the circus when he was a boy Before his father caught up with hiround, he had befriended animal tamers, clowns, horseback performers, and especially the acrobats, whoth