"
"Think we're too easy?" asked Bart. "You bet we are!" replied
Dick. "We ought to treat them as the French do at Mayence and the
British at Cologne. They know the people they're dealing with, and
while they're just, they're stern. Anyone who tries to put
anything over on them finds that he's monkeying with a buzz saw.
Unless we wake up from our easy good-nature, we'll find ourselves
with a lot of trouble on our hands."
"You seem to be rather worked up about it," remarked Billy.
"Not a bit more than I ought to be," returned Dick earnestly. "I
have chances of seeing things that you fellows don't. I'm flying
all over the occupied zone, and I tell you that the Spartacides
are trying to stir up trouble everywhere. In almost every other
town you can see the red flag flying. There's stormy weather
coming, and we've got to be prepared for gales."
"That just fits in with what Colonel Pavet of the French Army was
telling me to-day," said Frank. "He's just back from Berlin, and
he's sure there's trouble afoot."
"Well," said Dick, "I hope that we're both false prophets, but I'm
afraid we're not.
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