3/22 Yet you were not well advised to serve the Germans as a spy. They have not been able to save you from me this time, you see. It is not a case this time of the station at Virballen, with the superiority of numbers on their side for the moment." "It is your Cossacks who saved me from the Germans," said Fred. "I have been a spy--but it has been in the interest of Russia. General Alexander Suvaroff and his son can tell you that." "Perhaps," said Mikail, his eyes and mouth fixed, so that no one could have guessed what was in his mind. |