They believed and I disbelieved, yet the result was one.
At night Gooja Singh held forth in the hut where he slept with twenty-five others.

He explained--although he did not say how he knew--that the Germans have kept for many years in Berlin an office for the purpose of intrigue in India--an office manned by Sikh traitors.

"That is where Ranjoor Singh will be," said he.

"He will be managing that bureau." In those days Gooja Singh was Ranjoor Singh's bitterest enemy, although later he changed sides again.
The night-time was the worst.

By day there was the camp to keep clean and the German officers to talk to; but at night we lay awake thinking of India, and of our dead officer sahibs, and of all that had been told us that we knew was lies.