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 get. Some chiropodist, I tell de vorld. Ha, ve demonstrate de Perpetual Motions, you and I. Gott, I try to keep my eye on your feets but dey spread like cockroaches. It look to me impossible you haf only two legs? I tink you must be quadruped in disguise. Tousand gratitudes for de agonies of a lifetime."

"You must pardon de Herr President his enthusiasms," explained the Colonel. "He is fanatical dancer, he dance till de cows come home to de nest."

Frau Quackenbush was temporarily beyond speech. The Colonel put a chair for her on the terrace, brought her an ice, removed her slippers.

"I'd like to go paddling in that moat," was all she said for a while.

"Ve go swimming if you like," said the Colonel, always ready.

"That's the second time you've rescued me," she said gratefully. "If you ever come to America I can show you how I appreciate it. As long as I'm chairman of the Entertainment Com-