Yet we need more coal than ever." So, sahib.

So they turned my boast against me.

And the men around me, who had heard me tell the tale about our willing labor on the ship, now eyed me furiously; although at the time they had enjoyed the boast and had added details of their own.

The Germans went away and left us to talk over this new suggestion among ourselves, and until afternoon I was kept busy speaking in my own defense.
"Who could have foreseen how they would use my words against us ?" I demanded.

But they answered that any fool could have foreseen it, and that my business was to foresee in any case and to give them good advice.