An orderly hurried up and saluted.

"Telegram, sir."

Absently the Prince opened it. Then his eyes lit up.

"Gotterdammerung!" he said. "I never thought of that. 'Smash up London
and provide work for unemployed mending it.--GRAYSON,'" he read.
"Poppenheim."

"Sir?"

"Let the bombardment commence."

"Yes, sir."

"And let it continue till the Russians arrive. Then it must stop, or
there will be complications."

Captain von Poppenheim saluted, and withdrew.




Chapter 6

THE BOMBARDMENT OF LONDON


Thus was London bombarded. Fortunately it was August, and there was