I want to reach the mountains to the eastward without all this tremendous toiling through the snow.

You can carry me there in an hour or two, and besides this passport I give you a password." "What's the password ?" "Lannes!" "Lannes! Philip Lannes, do you know him ?" "I have been up with him in the _Arrow_ many times.

I've fought the Taubes with him.

I helped him destroy both a Zeppelin and a forty-two-centimeter gun." "Then I know you.

You are his friend John Scott, the American.