And where is young Van Belle now?
The Secretary
He was at Cologne when war was declared; but there’s a rumour that he managed to escape. We’ve heard nothing definite, though, and are very uneasy.
Jean Gilson
And the other? How did he get back to Germany?
The Secretary
I don’t know. He must have got wind of it somehow. He left us suddenly, at the end of July, gave out that his mother was ill.
Jean Gilson
That shows again that they knew what was going to happen and were preparing for it. And, as he had been warned, he might at least have done the same by his father-in-law and still more by his wife’s brother.
The Secretary