CHAPTER XX

In the rush of their first greeting Noll and Dimny, like young devourers of romance, skipped to the last chapter before they took up the first. She had told him of how her passport had failed to get her into Belgium, and he had promised that he would accomplish for her what Uncle Sam had failed to do, all before she thought to ask him how and why he had come to Rotterdam. The swift, deep look he gave into her eyes answered for him so well that she blushed fiercely, then whitened, then looked away. And that frighten…