He knew that trenches or other earthworks ran among the hills also, but the nature of the ground compelled breaks, and it would be easier anyhow to pass through a forest or a ravine.
"Where do you wish me to put you down ?" asked Delaunois.
"At some place in those low mountains there, where the German lines are furthest from ours." "I think I know such a point.

You won't mind my speaking of you as a spy, Mr.Jean Castel of America, will you ?" "Not at all, because that's what I am." "Then don't take too big a risk.

It hasn't been long since you were a boy, and I don't like to think of one so young being executed as a spy." "I don't intend to be." "It's likely that I may see Philip Lannes before long.

I go westward in two or three days and I shall find a chance to visit him in the hospital.

If I see him what shall I tell him about a young man whom we both know, one John Scott, an American ?" "You tell him that his sister, Mademoiselle Julie Lannes, came to the village of Chastel to meet him, in accordance with his written request, and while she was waiting for him with her servants, Antoine and Suzanne Picard, not knowing that he had been wounded since the writing of his letter, she was kidnapped and carried into Germany with the Picards by Prince Karl of Auersperg.