The examination was in writing, and when Peter had handed in his papers Doctor Gilman asked him if he would prefer at once to know the result.
“I should indeed!” Peter assured him.
“Then I regret to tell you, Hallowell,” said the professor, “that you have not passed. I cannot possibly give you a mark higher than five.” In real sympathy the sage of Stillwater raised his eyes, but to his great astonishment he found that Peter, so far from being cast down or taking offense, was smiling delightedly, much as a fond parent might smile upon the precocious act of a beloved child.
“I am afraid,” said Doctor Gilman gently, “that this summer you did not work very hard for your degree!”
Peter Laughed and picked up his hat.
“To tell you the truth, Professor,” he said, “you're right I got working for something worth while—and I forgot about the degree.”
Chapter 3. THE INVASION OF ENGLAND
This is the true inside story of the invasion of England in 1911 by the Germans, and why it failed. I got my data from Baron von Gottlieb, at the time military attaché of the German Government with the Russian army in the second Russian-Japanese War, when Russia drove Japan out of Manchuria, and reduced her to a third-rate power. He told me of his part in the invasion as we sat, after the bombardment of Tokio, on the ramparts of the Emperor's palace, watching the walls of the paper houses below us glowing and smoking like the ashes of a prairie fire.
Two years before, at the time of the invasion, von Gottlieb had been Carl Schultz, the head-waiter at the East Cliff Hotel at Cromer, and a spy.