"You can not credit your ears.

But you have heard correctly.

And now--as you might put it--it is up to you.

I have been in your country." He smiled pitifully.
"I think I know you Americans.

You are not the sort to refuse a man when he is sore beset--as I am." I looked from him to the general and back again.
"I must think this over," I answered, my mind going at once to Colonel Hughes.