It is nothing proper or Whiskers would
not be it and that you may tie to. He says that the big British victory
at New Chapelle cost more than it was worth and he has forbid Joe
Milgrave to come near the house because Joe ran up his father's flag
when the news came. Have you noticed, Mrs. Dr. dear, that the Czar has
changed that Prish name to Premysl, which proves that the man had good
sense, Russian though he is? Joe Vickers told me in the store that he
saw a very queer looking thing in the sky tonight over Lowbridge way. Do
you suppose it could have been a Zeppelin, Mrs. Dr. dear?"
"I do not think it very likely, Susan."
"Well, I would feel easier about it if Whiskers-on-the-moon were not
living in the Glen. They say he was seen going through strange
manoeuvres with a lantern in his back yard one night lately. Some people
think he was signalling."
"To whom--or what?"
"Ah, that is the mystery, Mrs. Dr. dear. In my opinion the Government
would do well to keep an eye on that man if it does not want us to be
all murdered in our beds some night. Now I shall just look over the
papers a minute before going to write a letter to little Jem. Two things
I never did, Mrs. Dr. dear, were write letters and read politics. Yet
here I am doing both regular and I find there is something in politics
after all. Whatever Woodrow Wilson means I cannot fathom but I am hoping
I will puzzle it out yet.
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