Verily these Germans had remembered all things and forgotten nothing.

I said that to myself mentally at the moment; nor have I had reason since to withdraw or qualify the remark.
The next morning I saw the adjutant, whose name was Renner and whose title was that of major; but first I, as spokesman, underwent a search for hidden weapons at the hands of a secret service man.

Major Renner was most courteous; also he was amused to hear the details of our taxicabbing expedition into his lines.

But of the desire which lay nearest our hearts---to get back to Brussels in time haply to witness its occupation by the Germans--he would not hear.
"For your own sakes," thus he explained it, "I dare not let you gentlemen go.

Terrible things have happened.