CHAPTER XXX

Whitlock smiled and nodded, and then turned in his plain manner and his plain clothes to receive the gorgeous von Bissing, with helmet gleaming, decorations radiant, and saber knocking on the floor. Mrs. Whitlock and Mrs. Lucey, Mrs. Hoover, and Mr. Hugh Gibson, Mr. Vernon Kellogg, and others came in to be presented to General Baron von Bissing and the Military Governor of Brussels, General Baron von Kraewel, and their gorgeous retinues. They were met under the truce of afternoon tea and there was nothing visible o…