Mr.Davis was present, he made it understood, not as a ticket-of-leave man, and because he had been ordered to report, but in spite of that fact.

He was there as the friend of the American minister, and the word "Spion" must be removed from his papers.
And so, on the pass that Rupert gave me, below where he had written that I was to be treated as a spy, they wrote I was "not at all," "gar nicht," to be treated as a spy, and that I was well known to the American minister, and to that they affixed the official seal.
That ended it, leaving me with one valuable possession.

It is this: should any one suggest that I am a spy, or that I am not a friend of Brand Whitlock, I have the testimony of the Imperial German Government to the contrary..