“He used to be, and this may stir him up again. He may be behind these mutinies which have been happening in the French army.”
“But that's crazy, Robbie. Don't they know the Germans would march straight in and take the country?”
“I suppose they figure that the same sort of agitation is going on among the German troops. If that fire once got to blazing, it might spread everywhere.”
“Gosh! Do you suppose we have such people in Budd's?”
“If there are, they keep pretty quiet. Father and Lawford have ways to keep track of agitators.”
“You mean we have spies?”
“Nobody can expect to run an industry unless he knows what's going on in it. This thing in Russia has set all the agitators crazy.” Robbie thought for a moment, then added: “Those secret treaties of the Allies have put a powerful weapon into their hands. They say to the workers: 'Look what you're fighting for! Look what's being done to you!'”
“But you said that too, Robbie!”
“I know; but it's one thing for you and me to know such facts, and another for them to be in the hands of revolutionists and criminals.”
“There's a chap in school who has a copy of those treaties and talks about them a lot. He says everything that you do.”