"We're both prisoners, but yesterday was a magnificent day for France and democracy." "It was, and now it's to be seen what today will be." "I hope and believe it will be no less magnificent." "I learned that you were taken just after you alighted from an aeroplane, and that a man with you escaped in the plane.

At least, I presume it was you, as I heard the Germans talking of such a person and I knew of your great friendship for Philip Lannes.

Lannes, of course was the one who escaped." "A good surmise, Fernand.

It was no less a man than he." Weber's eyes sparkled.
"I was sure of it," he said.

"A wonderful fellow, that Lannes, perhaps the most skillful and important bearer of dispatches that France has.
But he will not forget you, Mr.Scott.He knows, of course, where you were taken, and doubtless from points high in the air he has traced the course of this German army.