"But," protested the general, "my daughter and Frau Knoff are in Frankfort. Even now, looking from the window, my daughter saw you, which is the reason I am here. I came to aid, but I was too late." "But we do not like to impose—" began Chester. "Impose?" exclaimed the general. "Did you not once render me a service I shall never forget? Come, now." Laughingly, Hal and Chester accompanied the general to a house nearby. "It is my wish," said General Knoff, "that my family shall be better acquainted with the Americans. They are a brave race." The lads bowed their thanks. Both the general’s wife and daughter expressed pleasure at meeting the lads again. Hal nudged Chester slyly. "A real pretty girl, even if she is German," he said. Chester flushed angrily, then smiled as he added: "All we need now to complete the party is Stubbs." At the same moment General Knoff, glancing from the window, uttered an exclamation, jumped to his feet and left the room hurriedly. Five minutes later he returned, accompanied by another figure. It was Stubbs. "Well," said Chester, "if this isn’t a miracle there never was one." "I saw him passing," General Knoff explained. "What are you doing here, Mr. Stubbs?" asked Hal. "I thought you were fired. You might as well return home." "No," said Stubbs. "It’s true I was fired, but I’ve been hired again. You see, The New York Gazette scooped every paper in the United States on the signing of the armistice." "Scooped ’em twice, in fact, you might say, Mr. Stubbs," Chester put in slyly. Stubbs frowned. "Never mind that," he said. "The war’s over and we are all glad. And I’m glad to be with you here at this minute. I am assigned to stay with the American army of occupation, and I suppose I shall see considerable of you. And it is my hope that we may all return to America together." The general’s daughter now placed tea and cakes on the table, and the general invited all to pitch in. "Now," he said, "we all are friends once more, eh?" Neither Hal nor Chester replied; they looked back over four years of war, and in memory they saw the ruin and destruction wrought in many lands; and Chester expressed the sentiment of the American nation when he said to himself in answer to General Knoff’s query: "No, we are not all friends once more—not yet." As there was an end to the great world war, so there must be an end to all things—even to Hal Paine and Chester Crawford. So, seated comfortably about a table in the temporary home of General Knoff, once a general of the kaiser, we shall take our leave of them, knowing that, in due course of time, they will return to their homes in America, where they will live the lives of useful citizens.