He placed them in a first class compartment against the remonstrance of the guard, whom with drawn sabre, he defied to eject them.

As the train rolled out of the station cries of "Vive la France," "Vive l'Amerique," were exchanged.
At Rouen, then held by the Germans who had military guards all around the station, the train was detained for over half an hour owing to an accident.

While waiting, Paul and his companion left the station to procure some tobacco.

They passed a German soldier on guard at the gate who did not intercept them.

On returning, the sentinel stubbornly refused them permission to enter notwithstanding the fact that they showed him their pass-ports and transportation; but they could not persuade him either in French or English to let them pass.