The skipper in his cable asked us to meet him at Friedrichstadt, on the Eider, in Holstein, Germany. The trains were very slow and awkward. The Ober said:
“Why do you not take an automobile? Much quicker.”
“Yes; but the German customs?”
“Everything shall be arranged,” said the Ober.
I said:
“I don’t see myself among the German bureaucracy in a hired car.”
The Ober said calmly:
“I will go with you.”
“All the way?”