One thing he did learn--there had been no court-martial.

Thereafter, during his captivity, Stevens was treated with the utmost kindness by all the officers with whom he came in contact.

His was the only instance that I have knowledge of where a prisoner has been tortured, physically or mentally, by a German.

It was curious that in this one case the victim should have been an American citizen whose intentions were perfectly innocent and whose papers were orthodox and unquestionable.
Glancing back over what I have here written down I find I have failed altogether to mention the food which we ate on that trip of ours with the German wrecking crew.

It was hardly worth mentioning, it was so scanty.
We had to eat, during that day while we lay at Gembloux, a loaf of the sourish soldiers' black bread, with green mold upon the crust, and a pot of rancid honey which one of the party had bethought him to bring from Beaumont in his pocket.