ed his friend, Mr. Meyer.

"Just what is the connection?" insisted Hugo Raeder.

"Dear friend, let me explain to you. It permits him to retain his place,
his relations with his own old country people. You can surely see the
advantage of that. For instance: When I return to Germany I find myself
in full possession of all my accustomed privileges. I am no stranger.
Ah, it is beautiful! And you see further how it establishes a new bond
between the two countries. Every German-American will become a bond of
unity between these two great nations, the two great coming nations of
the world."

"Beautiful, beautiful, glorious!" echoed Meyer.

"But I do not understand," said Larry. "Are you still a citizen of
Germany?"

"I am an American citizen, and proud of it," exclaimed Professor
Schaefer, dramatically.

"Ach, so, geviss," said Meyer. "Sure! an American citizen!"

"But you are also a citizen of Germany?" enquired Hugo Raeder.

"If I return to Germany I resume the rights of my German citizenship, of
course."

"Beautiful, beautiful!" exclaimed Meyer.

"Look here, Schaefer. Be frank about this. Which are you to-day, a
citizen of Germany or of America?"

"Both, I tell you," exclaimed Schaefer proudly. "That is the beauty of
the arrangement."

"Ah, a beautiful arrangement!" said Meyer.

"What? You are a citizen of another country while you claim American
citizenship?" said Raeder. "You can no more be a citizen of two
countries at the same time than the husband of two wives at the same
time."

"Well, why not?" laughed Schaefer. "An American wife for America, and
a German wife for Germany. You will excuse me," he added, bowing toward
Mrs. Wakeham.

"Don't be disgusting," said Hugo Raeder. "Apart from the legal
difficulty the chief difficulty about that scheme would be that whatever
the German wife might have to say to such an arrangement, no American
wife would tolerate it for an instant."

"I was merely joking, of course," said Schaefer.

"But, Professor Schaefer, suppose war should come between Germany and
America," said Larry.

"War between Germany and America--the thing is preposterous nonsense,
not to be considered among the possibilities!"

"But as a mere hypothesis for the sake of argument, what would your
position be?" persisted Larry.

Professor Schaefer was visibly annoyed. "I say the hypothesis is
nonsense and unthinkable," he cried.

"Come on, Schaefer, you can't escape it like that, you know,