If you see your father soon, however, will you give him my compliments?
And tell him from me that I should esteem it an honor if we should meet in the field ?" "Gladly, captain.

It is a pity that such good friends and neighbors as we have all been must be enemies, is it not?
But it was not our doing." Fred frowned a little.
"That sounds rather bad," he said to himself.

"If this captain has lived near here, he must know a good deal about the place.

And, by George, if they make a search they will find the wireless machinery that Ivan brought in with him! It may be a mighty bad thing for this house and for Russia that Boris saw me and brought me in, though it was certainly lucky for me!" But even then Fred did not guess the extent of the trouble he had really caused.

He listened intently, but for a time there was silence beyond the wall.