CHAPTER XVIII

Both Captain Roantree and Lieutenant Sperling wanted to escort Dimny to Rotterdam and beyond. They would have escorted her to heaven gladly, and quarreled all the way up the ladder. But Holland was maintaining her neutrality with a pride in inverse ratio to her size, and the uniforms of both men would have required their internment as prisoners. They would have then been of no help to anybody, least of all to Dimny. The sole consolation of each was that the other could not go, either. They insisted on going as far …