Achmed Abdullah

“ CHAPTER XXXIII THE NOOSE IN THE WEB When, around noon, Krauss announced Colonel Heinrich Wedekind Tom Graves looked forward to an acrimonious scene, and was therefore surprised, in a way relieved, when the officer, who was in full uniform, the uhlanka on his head, saber trailing, decorations blazing on his breast, the silver sash of formal occasions running from shoulder to waist, saluted stiffly and showed by his first words that he had no intention of mentioning the ugly words that had been swapped that morning across the telephone. ”

“ No more he believed in the kindly, rather stolid folk that heretofore had been the Teutonic prototype in his provincial, American imagination. He had learned better since then. But he told himself that even soulless German efficiency would stop at killing one man, the Baron, so as to get him, Tom, into the clutches of the law. ”

“ A squadron of Dragoons cantered to the West, towards Halensee, their triangular pennants fluttering in the low wind, their lance butts creaking against the saddle leather, their sabers flickering like evil cressets. ”