We were all mad! There was another thing.

Oro had declared that we were at war with Germany.

If this were so, how could he know it?
Such knowledge would presume powers of telepathy or vision beyond those given to man.

I could not believe that he possessed these; as Bickley said, it would be past experience.

Yet it was most strange that he who was uninformed as to our national history and dangers, should have hit upon a country with which we might well have been plunged into sudden struggle.