The sentence on Ahlers, the German Consul at Sunderland, who has been condemned to death on charge of high treason, is not a whit more severe than the circum: stances of the case justified. He was a naturalized Englishman which means, in the first place, that he found life in England preferable to life in Germany, and in the second that he was entirely trusted by the country of his adoption. Years of friendly treatment, of enjoyment of British freedom, were, however, deliberately forgotten. They counted as nothing when it came to a choice between helping or not helping a most amazing duplicity. possible to think that he was swept off his feet in a moment of sudden temptation, but for that to happened he must have retained an intense love for his original country while all the time, to suit his own purposes, masquerading as a loyal British subject.
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