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Established here, we set about getting in touch with the German
higher-ups, since we were likely to be mistaken for Englishmen, which
would be embarrassing certainly, and might even be painful. At the
hotel next door--for all the buildings flanking this square were hotels
of a sort--we found a group of officers.
One of them, a tall, handsome, magnetic chap, with a big, deep laugh and
a most beautiful command of our own tongue, turned out to be a captain
on the general staff. It seemed to him the greatest joke in the world
that four American correspondents should come looking for war in a
taxicab, and should find it too. He beat himself on his flanks in the
excess of his joy, and called up half a dozen friends to hear the
amazing tale; and they enjoyed it too.
He said he felt sure his adjutant would appreciate the joke; and, as
incidentally his adjutant was the person in all the world we wanted most
just then to see, we went with him to headquarters, which was a mile
away in the local Palais de Justice--or, as we should say in America,
the courthouse.


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