Hapsburg Liebe

“ In the crooked streets below him half the regiment was hurrying hither and thither, no doubt making preparations for a march to rescue him. Stretched out across the miles that lay between him and the other side of the island, he could see a dense deep-green, jungle-wilderness of bamboo and coconut palm and wild banana ”

“ A lighted match showed him a rifle’s strap that had been cut away, and a handful of Spanish silver, lying on the ground just inside the door. The walls of the hut had been almost completely demolished, as though in a desperate struggle.
“‘Now,’ said Corporal Winton, a little pale under his deep tan, ‘now I can wake the captain. The Filipinos have captured a man who is a real American soldier.’
“Daybreak found private Munford sitting alone among the gray stones that covered the crest of a mountain that rose precipitously behind Catbalogan. ”

“ The corporal of the guard and the two others shouldered their rifles and went back to the guardhouse.
“Winton jabbed the butt of his rifle down in a corner with a lowly spoken imprecation. Captain Gunter was sour because of his malaria, and there was a great chance that he would not like to be awakened at that hour to listen to a report that would say merely that Carlin had been captured. Had it been anyone except the poltroon, it would have been different. Any other man of the company was worth an uproar, and perhaps a quick march into the treacherous interior of the island ”

“ When greetings had been exchanged, the Little Padre seated himself with the two members of the Imperial Guard, and fresh lager was ordered. The Lusitania episode was promptly brought up.
“But it will amount to nothing,” declared Torfeld. “As Guben there has just said, the Americans won’t fight; they are weaklings.” ”

“ Germany and her allies loved him, as did France and her allies. I do not know how it happened that he was in Berlin; by all the laws of precedence, he should have been ministering to the wounded and dying in some field hospital. ”