"Doesn't take them long to slip
around, does it? Seems only last week that I voted for Wilson. I
wonder if he'll be running again."
"Sure! And if he can keep us in the war as long as he kept us out
of it," said Peter Snipe, "we'll have to elect him again."
"I'd give a lot to know whether we've got the Germans licked or
not," mused Fitts. "We've had nearly three years to do it in."
"Depends entirely on the navy," said Platt, Minister of Marine,
late of the U. S. Navy.
"What can the navy do if the Germans will not come out?" demanded
Landover.
"Why, confound it all, the navy can go in, can't it?"
"The British Navy hasn't," was Landover's reply.
"What's the use of speculating about the war?" said Percival, as
he threw himself on the grass at Ruth's feet. "Either it's over
or it isn't, and here we sit absolutely in the dark. They might
as well be fighting on Mars as over in Europe, so far as we are
concerned. For God's sake, let's not even think about the war.
We'll all go crazy if we do."
"You're right," said Fitts, gloomily.
"In any case," said Malone, "Trigger Island has done all that any
self-respecting government can do. She has declared war on Germany.
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