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112 country; then, turning to one of the guests, he said to me:

"Herr Blume, here, is the head of the German Secret Service." Then he smiled.

"So," remarked Blume in good English, "you have been writing those lies about Germany! I have read The Saturday Evening Post for many years; but when the war broke out I stopped reading everything about Germany. None of your magazines will publish the truth. The other night I read every article in the Post, except one about Germany. I did not want to read that one; but I couldn't sleep because it was so hot that night, and I read that article about one-thirty in the morning. It made me so angry I didn't sleep all night!

"Well," I replied, "you ought to read everything that is written about Germany, and maybe you couldn't sleep for a week! But what are you going to do when Germany becomes a democratic nation?"

"Germany is democratic," he answered; and then the conversation followed other, less belligerent, channels.

Though it would not be safe to assume that because Herr Blume is considered by some of the foreigners as the chief of the Kaiser's service there, the fact that the allied foreigners can select one or more men who do His Majesty's work is significant in that it shows how even the ordinary citizen, at home and abroad, is a member of