There's a higher personage--but pardon me, I must speak to the lieutenant." The officer in charge was saluting, obviously anxious to make his report and have done with an unpleasant duty.

Von Arnheim gave him rapid directions in German and then asked Julie and the two Picards to dismount from the cart, while the others were carried through the gate and down a drive toward some distant out-buildings.
John saw von Arnheim's eyes gleam a little, when he noticed the beauty of young Julie, but the Prussian was a man of heart and manner.

He lifted his helmet, and bowed with the greatest courtesy, saying: "It's an unhappy chance for you, but not for us, that has made you our prisoner, Mademoiselle Lannes.

In this chateau you must consider yourself a guest, and not a captive.

It would not become us to treat otherwise the sister of one so famous as your brother." John noticed that he paid her no direct compliment.