We thought we saw Germans in the outskirts of Chastel.

We did not find any, but when we came back to the Hotel de l'Europe, where we left them, Mademoiselle Julie and her servants, the Picards, were gone." "Perhaps they were alarmed by the German advance and have taken refuge somewhere in the woods.

If so, it will be easy to find them, Scott." "No, they're not there.

They're in the hands of the enemy.

I shouldn't mind it so much if she were merely a captive of the Germans, but that man Auersperg has taken her again." "How can you possibly know that to be true, Scott ?" Then John told the story of the register, and of the successive writing of the names.