ame
spirit. "After that I lose count on a fat one. I don't know whether
to count him as two or whether I'm seeing double."

"I guess you're not seeing double at all, at all," replied Jimmie. "I
think I see the same guy myself. He's certainly some big gun!"

"Which one do you mean?" queried Dave, trying to locate the one Jimmie
referred to. "I can't quite make him out right now."

"That fellow over there," answered the other, pointing toward the
forward end of the train. "Can't you see the big automobile that just
pulled up? I saw that big guy get out of it just now."

"Sure enough!" declared Dave. "I can see the auto now, and I think I
can see the man, too. Wonder who he is and what he wants."

"Probably he's only a station master or something," said Jimmie with
feigned unconcern. "Maybe it's the Kaiser himself for all we know. If
it is he, I'm going to scold him roundly for deserting all the
perfectly good sausages in Berlin and coming way out here just to stop
our perfectly good little train. Wonder what he wants."

"There they come now," went on Dave excitedly. "They're all coming
along this way, and it looks as if he's going back to the caboose.
Maybe he's going to ride with us a little way."

"Can you see what they're trying to do now?" asked Jimmie.

"In just a minute I will," was the answer. "Let me get a good hold
here and I'll lean out a ways from the car."

Dave grasped the side of the door and leaned far out from the carriage
in which the boys were riding. Had he not done so the result might
have been far different. Jimmie had only time to utter a single word
of caution before he saw that his chum was slipping.

With a cry Dave tried to regain his lost balance. Finding that it was
impossible to draw himself back into the car, the lad chose the only
other possible course and leaped into the air in an effort to land
squarely on his feet as he left the car.

In this he was successful. He came down beside the track upon his
feet, turning just in time to face the approaching group.

Jimmie gazed in wonderment and amazement upon the features of the man
he had previously noted. For a moment he stared speechless.

"Well, I'll be sold for a cent!" he declared as he observed the
individual closely. "If it isn't the Kaiser I'll eat my hat!"

It was indeed none other than the Kaiser himself! Jimmie had
recognized the man because he had seen so many pictures of the notable
person who w