"That very belief which you have just expressed is our justification, because it is the common belief throughout the country.

I can prove to you that you are mistaken--can prove it, with the help of that very packet which is responsible for your incarceration here." "Explain," Julian begged.
"That packet," the Bishop declared, "contains the peace terms formulated by the Socialist and Labour parties of Germany." "Worth precisely the paper it is written on ?" Julian scoffed.
"And ratified," the Bishop continued emphatically, "by the three great men of Germany, whose signatures are attached to that document--the Kaiser, the Chancellor and Hindenburg." Julian was electrified.
"Do you seriously mean," he asked, "that those signatures are attached to proposals of peace formulated by the Socialist and Labour parties of Germany ?" "I do indeed," was the confident reply.

"If the terms are not what we have been led to expect, or if the signatures are not there, the whole affair is at an end." "You are telling me wonderful things, sir," Julian confessed, after a brief pause.
"I am telling what you will discover yourself to be the truth," the Bishop insisted.

"And, Julian, I am appealing to you not only for the return of that packet, but for your sympathy, your help, your partisanship.

You can guess now what has happened.