Then he began.
"Julian," he said, "every word that I have spoken to you about the night before last is the truth.

There is a further confession, however, which under the circumstances I have to make.

I belong to a body of men who are in touch with a similar association in Germany, but I have no share in any of the practical doings--the machinery, I might call it--of our organisation.

I have known that communications have passed back and forth, but I imagined that this was done through neutral countries.

I went out the night before last as an ordinary British citizen, to do my duty.