"
"That's the way to talk!" cried Tom. "That'll give me a chance to
get in on the game."
"I don't know that the rats will trouble us next time," put in
Billy. "You'll remember that it was only after we got past that
place where the light was that we came across them in any numbers.
Their stamping ground seemed to be further on."
"That seems likely enough," agreed Bart. "The light being there
showed that somebody had been using the passage without hindrance.
We simply had the hard luck to get in the quarter where the rats
were thickest. At any rate, well take another chance."
That chance was not as soon in coming as they had hoped for,
however, for Coblenz was now seething with unrest. The disorders
that were prevalent all over Germany were manifesting themselves
in the region of the Rhine. Scarcely a day passed without an
outrage of some kind being reported. Several American soldiers
were found stabbed in the street by unknown assassins. Agitators
from Berlin were slipping into the city and trying to stir up
insurrection. It was feared that the sharp lesson given on a
previous occasion would have to be repeated.
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