But I changed my mind when I read it.

It was from some official at Regensburg, asking him to put under arrest and send back by the first boat a man called Brandt, who was believed to have come aboard at Absthafen on the 30th of December.
I whistled and showed it to Peter.

The sooner we were at Constantinople the better, and I prayed we would get there before the fellow who sent this wire repeated it and got the commandant to send on the message and have us held up at Chataldja.

For my back had fairly got stiffened about these munitions, and I was going to take any risk to see them safely delivered to their proper owner.

Peter couldn't understand me at all.