Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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"I've just been saying, Mr. Spencer," he said, in good English, but
with the guttural accent which thirty years in America had not eliminated, "that I'll be leaving you now." "Leaving! Why?" "Because of that l" He pointed, without intentional drama, at the shell-case. "I can't make those shells for you, Mr. Spencer, and me a German." "You're an American, aren't you?" "I am, sir. It is not that. It iss that I - " His face worked. He had dropped back to the old idiom, after years of painful struggle to abandon it. "It iss that I am a German, also. I have people there, in the war. To make shells to kill them - no." "He is determined, Mr. Spencer," said Hutchinson. "I have been arguing with him, but - you can't argue with a German." Clayton was uneasily aware of something like sympathy for the man. "I understand how you feel, Klein," he observed. "But of course you know, whether you go or stay, the shells will be made, anyhow." "I know that." "You are throwing up a good position." "I'll try to get another." |
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