In the face of danger, embarrassment dropped away. The next moment Louise had fled back to her countrymen and was listening, excited, to their eager whispers.
"Rudolph Kreisler sits by himself—always by himself. Isn't that funny?"
"Just look at him now!"
"See him watching the flag?"
"Get that gleam in his eye? Look, quick!"
"Old rascal! He got home free yesterday—but just you wait!"
And so they stood apart from him and whispered.
The German spy dug his toes in the sand a little longer, then rose and moved a few steps farther up.
Then Ella Vaiden declared that they were wasting time, and proposed that they begin a game.
But nobody knew what to play.