A long freight-train rumbled and rattled by, and a little later they passed a coal shaft, where a begrimed night shift loaded cars under flaring torches.
"Their message to Winkelried is still on this side of the Atlantic," said Armitage; "but Winkelried is in a strong room by this time, if the existing powers at Vienna are what they ought to be.

I've done my best to get him there.

The message would only help the case against him if they sent it." Claiborne groaned mockingly.
"I suppose I'll know what it's all about when I read it in the morning papers.

I like the game well enough, but it might be more amusing to know what the devil I'm fighting for." "You enlisted without reading the articles of war, and you've got to take the consequences.

You've done what you set out to do--you've found me; and you're traveling with me over the Virginia mountains to report my capture to Baron von Marhof.