Nobody seems to
know what it is and the doctors themselves are all at sea. Only
yesterday one of the guards was taken with it. Big husky fellow he
was too, and yet in a couple of hours he was dead. Seems to work
as quickly as the cholera and to be just as deadly. I hope it
doesn't hit the American Army."
"It has hit it already," replied Frank soberly. "There's quite a
lot of our boys in Coblenz who have died of it, and the officers
are all up in the air about it. The medical staff is at its wit's
end. I tell you, it's getting to be a mighty big problem."
"I wish we were out of the hoodooed country!" exclaimed Bart
savagely. "The whole land seems to rest under a curse. When on
earth will that treaty be signed so that we can go back to the
States?"
"The Germans say that they're not going to sign it if it proves to
be as severe as is reported," remarked Tom. "I've heard that said
on every side."
"'They say' they're not," sneered Billy. "What does their 'they
say' amount to? Nothing at all. They said they'd never stop
fighting, and they lay down like dogs. They said we'd never step
on the sacred soil of Germany, but there wasn't a peep out of them
when we marched over the Rhine.
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