Chapter 23

The Kaiser at Kiel was racing his own clipper when the operator of the Imperial private wireless read a story from the notes of the singing spark that smote him pale and sick. When his anointed master heard the gory news, his chief regret seems to have concerned the untimely decease of the partner of his "life-work." "It will have," he said with bitterness, "to be begun all over again!" One wonders, in the blood-red light of four years of dreadful carnage, seeing Hell and its dark Powers still unchained, and ragin…