If they are really Red Cross workers, they are not attending to their proper business." When the captain interpreted this speech Patsy said angrily: "The general is an old fool." "An idiot, I'll call him," added Uncle John.

"I wish I could tell him so." "You _have_ told him," said the general in good English, squinting now more rapidly than ever, "and your manner of speech proves you to be impostors.

I have never known a respectable Red Cross nurse, of any country, who called a distinguished officer a fool--and to his face." "I didn't know you understood English," she said.
"That is no excuse!" "But I _did_ know," she added, "that I had judged you correctly.

No one with a spark of intelligence could doubt the evidence of these papers." "The papers are all right.

Where did you get them ?" "From the proper authorities." He turned to speak rapidly in German to Colonel Grau, who had been uneasy during the conversation in English, because he failed to understand it.