“If I return to Germany I resume the rights of my German citizenship, of course.”
“Beautiful, beautiful!” exclaimed Meyer.
“Look here, Schaefer. Be frank about this. Which are you to-day, a citizen of Germany or of America?”
“Both, I tell you,” exclaimed Schaefer proudly. “That is the beauty of the arrangement.”
“Ah, a beautiful arrangement!” said Meyer.
“What? You are a citizen of another country while you claim American citizenship?” said Raeder. “You can no more be a citizen of two countries at the same time than the husband of two wives at the same time.”
“Well, why not?” laughed Schaefer. “An American wife for America, and a German wife for Germany. You will excuse me,” he added, bowing toward Mrs. Wakeham.
“Don't be disgusting,” said Hugo Raeder. “Apart from the legal difficulty the chief difficulty about that scheme would be that whatever the German wife might have to say to such an arrangement, no American wife would tolerate it for an instant.”
“I was merely joking, of course,” said Schaefer.
“But, Professor Schaefer, suppose war should come between Germany and America,” said Larry.