CHAPTER XXI
SQUARING ACCOUNTS
Tom told in detail just what had happened since he had fallen into
the hands of the Huns. He had been taken from place to place and
treated with the greatest harshness. Everywhere he had witnessed
scenes of bloodshed and cruelty. The Spartacides had spared
neither age nor sex. They had seemed possessed with a lust for
murder. Their bloody work had a fit emblem in their red flag.
Tom's familiarity with the language had not been great enough to
understand all that was said in the conferences that he frequently
overheard, though he had picked up enough to know that murder and
riot were being planned on an extensive scale in the district
occupied by the American Army. Some of the Germans in the mob had
lived previously in America, from which they came to serve in the
German Army when war had been declared and while the United States
was still neutral, and these men, Tom said, were among the
bitterest of all. Often in their off hours they would come and
stand in front of his cell and tell him blood curdling stories of
what they had been doing and of what they were going to do to him
also.
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