CHAPTER XLII

Months drifted by with alternate sun and storm. History tottered from one cataclysm to another. The Germans dared to publish in American newspapers an advertisement warning Americans not to take passage on the _Lusitania_. They dared even to send a false wireless message and lure the ship into a trap and sink her without warning, with the massacre of more than a thousand men and women and children, more than a hundred of them Americans. Banquets were held to celebrate the German triumph. A medal was struck in honor…