Kiel Week thenceforward was an endless round of Anglo-German pleasantries. A Zeppelin, harbinger of coming events, hovered over the British squadron at intervals, her crew wagging cheery greetings to the ships while acquainting themselves at close range with the looks of English dreadnoughts from the sky. British sailormen paid fraternal visits to German dreadnoughts and German sailormen returned their calls. The crew of the _Ajax_ gave a music-hall smoker in honor of the crew of the big battle-cruiser _Seydlitz_, the Teuton tars being no little awestruck by the complacency with which two heavyweight British boxers pummeled each other a sea-green for six rounds and then smilingly shook hands when it was all over. Germans never punch one another except in gory hate, and they seldom fight with their fists. The Kaiser was host nightly at splendid State dinners in the _Hohenzollern_ and Vice-Admiral Warrender returned the fire with state banquets aboard the _King George V_. The atmosphere was fairly thick with brotherly love. It was not so much as ruffled even when the octogenarian Earl of Brassey, who wards off rheumatism by an early morning pull in his row-boat, was arrested by a German harbor-policeman as an "English spy" for approaching the forbidden waters of Kiel dockyard. German diplomacy was typically represented by Lord Brassey’s zealous captor, for the master of the famous _Sunbeam_ brought that venerable craft to Kiel to demonstrate that Englishmen of his class sincerely favored peace, and, if possible, friendship with Germany. Wilhelmstrasse tact was exemplified again when, by way of apology to Lord Brassey, the Kiel police explained that there was, of course, no intention of charging him with espionage. The policeman who arrested him merely thought he was nabbing a smuggler! At dinner that night in the _Hohenzollern_, the Kaiser chuckled jovially at Lord Brassey’s expense. England’s greatest living marine historian stole away from Kiel with the _Sunbeam_ in the gray dawn of the next day, with new ideas of German courtesy to the stranger within the gate. He had intended to stay longer. [Illustration: A naval Zeppelin cruising over the British squadron at Kiel.]