"It's her being there makes me suspicious, maybe--Littman says so--laughed at the idea that Otto was working for anybody but America. But I don't know, Ingraham--I don't know. I ought not to have thrown him out, maybe, but I didn't like it. Sweden! That means Germany, and Otto Littman knows it, or--it means tying up the plant if they can't ship. "Another thing I'm telling you this for--it ain't natural the feeling in the town against selling munitions to the Allies should be so strong as it is. It would have died out long ago if somebody from outside wasn't stirring it up. There are more pacifists around town than is normal, more in the factory and even in the wire plant. Don't seem to go deep enough to make 'em give up their jobs--just talk, and there must be somebody behind it. I'm making allowance for those that's honestly against it, those that think not believing in war will make a difference. Couldn't stop an earthquake that way, and that's what this war is, Ingraham--earthquake--convulsion. Guess men have 'em--burst their bonds like the earth its crust. Guess we won't end them until we put more give into the bonds--make 'em more elastic. That's the way I see it. Hope you won't mind my disturbing you. Had to get it off my mind." Dick had listened in amazed silence through the talk. He reached out his hand, deeply moved. "Disturb me, Mr. Cowder? I think your confidence an honor, and I don't think your suspicion idle. On the contrary, I agree with you that the feeling against munition making here isn't normal, but I take it that we must expect propaganda. I don't like the secrecy of it, if it is propaganda. As for Littman, I often talk with him. He's quite openly for Germany. He has lived there as a student, you know. He has caught the faith that consumes Germany and is driving her now--her faith that her destiny is to rule the earth by virtue of her superior ability, knowledge, strength. It's not easy for young men of Otto's type to resist. Whether he is being used as a tool consciously or unconsciously, I cannot say. It would be quite in keeping with Germany's practice to stir up trouble here with England if she could. She naturally wants to take our minds off Belgium--to build back fires. I am not sure but the feeling growing in the country against Mexico--the fear of Japan--is largely German propaganda. And Otto may be helping it on, not out of disloyalty to the United States but because his German advisers--if he has them--have made him believe that the country is threatened in these directions. It was Otto, you remember, who brought that lecturer here a few weeks ago to warn us about a Mexican-Japanese alliance. It might have happened naturally enough, to be sure. But if pro-German citizens are introducing such lecturers into quiet towns like ours, all over the land, I should feel it was distinctly a disloyal act. I don't know that they are, though it's sure the lecture we heard and the maps we saw had been used