He had plenty to think of, too, as they rode along.

For one thing, while he had taken his chance and won, since this officer had not seen him before, there was every prospect that he would be recognized if he were now taken to headquarters.

He supposed that that was where they were going, and he knew that a number of the officers who had left the parsonage with General von Hindenburg on the night of the Cossack raid would be present.

It would be strange, indeed, if none of them knew him.

And it took no imagination to guess what recognition would mean.
There was just one thing in his favor now.