For every word of my despatch they censored I offered to give them for the Red Cross of France five francs.

That was an easy way for them to subscribe to the French wounded three thousand dollars.

To release his story Gerald Morgan, of the London Daily Telegraph, made them the same offer.

It was a perfectly safe offer for Gerald to make, because a great part of his story was an essay on Gothic architecture.

Their answer was to put both of us in the Cherche-Midi prison.