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`` I ca n't tell you how thankful I am to have met a true American here , '' he added , extending his hand to the consul . `` I shall tell the story of to-night in the State department at Washington when I get back . '' `` Well , get it straight , '' laughed the consul . `` Say that a blundering German boy , who said he was a Boy Scout from Philadelphia , nearly dragged me out of bed about midnight and informed me that other Boy Scouts were in trouble at the telegraph office . I knew that Ned was expected here , and so lost no time in getting down . That 's all . The marines did the rest . ''