That will delight you.

They are the forerunners of all their nation.' We drove in a taxi through the suburbs and then over a stretch of flat market-garden-like country to a low rise of wooded hills.

After an hour's ride we entered the gate of what looked like a big reformatory or hospital.

I believe it had been a home for destitute children.
There were sentries at the gate and massive concentric circles of barbed wire through which we passed under an arch that was let down like a portcullis at nightfall.

The lieutenant showed his permit, and we ran the car into a brick-paved yard and marched through a lot more sentries to the office of the commandant.
He was away from home, and we were welcomed by his deputy, a pale young man with a head nearly bald.