It was either in some special code or in a strange language.
He lay still and did some calm thinking.

There was a man in front of him, a Turkish soldier, who was in the enemy's pay.

Therefore he could fraternize with him, for they were on the same side.

But how was he to approach him without getting shot in the process?
Again, how could a man send signals to the enemy from a firing-line without being detected?
Peter found an answer in the strange configuration of the ground.

He had not heard a sound until he was a few yards from the place, and they would be inaudible to men in the reserve trenches and even in the communication trenches.