One or the other, I should think." "Clever Boris!" thought Fred.

"He'll tell him some truth and some fiction! He has got to deceive him, of course--that's war." "I have reason, Prince, to think that he was an English spy," the captain went on.

"You will allow my men to make a search?
And, by the way, I shall be sorry to take away your servants, but my orders are to arrest and send to detention camps every man of military age I find here." "I understand, captain.

I am entirely in your hands, of course.

I should like to know if it will be possible for me to return soon to Russia ?" "You must go to higher officers than myself, Prince," said the captain.
"If it rested with me--! But, of course, it does not.