I'm glad of that, because the Germans would have taken him prisoner if he'd been here." For just a moment neither seemed to catch the other's name.

Then the Russian boy spoke.
"Fred Waring--an American ?" he said.

"I--is it possible?
I've got a cousin called Waring in America! My father's first cousin married an American of that name years and years ago." "She was a Suvaroff--my mother," said Fred, but he spoke stiffly.

"Her family here disowned her--" "Some of them--only some of them," said Boris.

"Are you really my cousin?
My father wrote to your mother long ago--but he got no answer! He has often told me of her.