One of them was
killed yesterday."
"The hounds!" gritted Frank between his teeth.
CHAPTER XXII
WILL THE GERMANS SIGN?
"It was a pitiful sight," said Tom, continuing the tale of his
experience while a captive. "One of the women wanted to write a
message of farewell to her husband and children. They gave her
paper and pencil, and one of the guards offered his back to rest
the paper on while she wrote. At about every sentence, the guard
let himself fall down and the woman stumbled over him. It was
great fun for the rest of the gang. They laughed as if it were a
show. Oh, I tell you, the Huns are great humorists!"
The eyes of the Army Boys flashed.
"The unspeakable beasts!" cried Frank.
"It would be a good thing if a plague came along and snuffed out
the whole nation!" angrily exclaimed Bart.
"It might be a good thing for the rest of the world," agreed Tom.
"And, by the way, speaking of plague, I don't know but what it's
on the way even now. In one or two of the places I've been in
there's a mysterious something that's killing off the people like
sheep. I've heard the guards talking about it.
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