Some account of what you saw from space might help your departure for America." And so that was it! Now the prisoner's eye steadily confronted that of the old general.
"Your Highness," he said, as he thought that the old man might be a prince as well as a general, "you have read the history of the great civil war in my country, have you not ?" "It was a part of my military duty to study it.

It was a long and desperate struggle with many great battles, but what has it to do with the present ?" "Did you ever hear of any traitor on either side, North or South, in that struggle ?" The deep red veins in the old general's face stood out, but he gave no other sign.
"You prefer, then," he said, "to become a charge upon our German hospitality.

But I can say that your refusal will not make terms harder for you.

Lieutenant von Arnheim, take him back to the other prisoners." "Thank you, sir," said John, and he gave the military salute.

He could understand the old man's point of view, rough and gruff though he was, and he was not lacking in a certain respect for him.