I rather feared
that you might have to remain away another day."
"We had ladies to look after," remarked Byers. "That made us hurry
back sooner. Here is Pete, of whom you thought such dreadful things.
Pete is learning. Now, while we take Miss Daskam and her maid to their
quarters, I want you to go to the through line to Dunkirk, and ask for
Baron Suvahl. He should be somewhere about there, if we have been
rightly informed."
After that the captain with characteristic courtesy took the two tired
yet grateful women to the women's Red Cross station and left them in
kindly, congenial company. It was here Senator Walsen and his
daughters were staying. When they and Miss Aida became acquainted at
breakfast next morning it was astonishing how many mutual acquaintances
they discovered, yet mostly back in the dear old country across the
ocean.
About the middle of the morning a tall, spare, resolute young man,
accompanied by a plainly garbed lady, his wife, met Captain Byers at
the latter's office. Simultaneously there came two other personages
plainly garbed in Belgian costume, yet most distinguished aside from
that.
There was a certain respect, almost deference, in the way Baron Suvahl
and his wife met the King, for one of the visitors was really King
Albert of Belgium. His wife, the queen, was even more democratic. In
fact, in the manner of all, including the Americans, was that which
marked them as fully tinctured with the true democratic spirit that
this war has so fully brought out among all the Allies.
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