He had often wondered how a man wishing to marry a widow managed with the idea of her children by another marriage; but if Kenby was honest; it was much simpler than he had supposed.

He could not say this to him, however, and in a certain embarrassment he had with the conjecture in his presence he attempted a diversion.

"We're promised something at the Volksfest which will be a great novelty to us as Americans.

Our driver told us this morning that one of the houses there was built entirely of wood." When they reached the grounds of the Volksfest, this civil feature of the great military event at hand, which the Marches had found largely set forth in the programme of the parade, did not fully keep the glowing promises made for it; in fact it could not easily have done so.

It was in a pleasant neighborhood of new villas such as form the modern quarter of every German city, and the Volksfest was even more unfinished than its environment.