"I'd rather have you," said Chester.
McKenzie also voted for Hal, who already had done him some service.
This agreement, stood.
"All right," said Hal. "Now that I'm in command, I'll outline the course of procedure. We'll go from here to the Dutch border."
"How about passports?" Chester wanted to know.
"That's simple enough. You remember the time when we drew up a set of fake passports representing ourselves to be correspondents of the New York Gazette? We'll follow the same plan, except that we each will be represented as correspondents of different papers. See, I've already drawn, them."
"I see," said Chester, "but American passports won't be honored in
Germany now."
"But they will be in Holland," said Hal. "We'll see what can be done about having them changed there. Now, let's see if we know who we are."
He passed the fake passports to the others.
"I'm Barney McCann, eh?" said McKenzie, gazing at the paper he held in his hand. "Oh, well, I guess I can talk Irish as well as German if I have to. And I represent the Chicago Mail."
"I'm still Chester Crawford," said Chester, "and I represent the New
York Gazette."