It was a false escape that I planned for you at the chateau.

You were to have been shot down, but by an unlucky chance you escaped in the water." "I've surmised that already." "I'm an aviator, not so great as your friend Lannes, but no mean one nevertheless.

It was I who pursued him, when you were with him in the _Arrow_ near Paris, and wounded him." "I've surmised that, too." "And when Prince Karl coveted Mademoiselle Julie Lannes--and I do not blame him--I was of the most help to him in that matter so near to his heart.

Do you understand that it was a great honor he offered Mademoiselle Lannes, to make her his morganatic wife?
He need not have offered her so much." The great pulse in John's throat beat heavily and his hand pressed the automatic, but he compressed his lips and said nothing.
"I see that my words anger you," continued Weber, "but from my point of view I am right.

I serve my overlord!" "What message were you sending by the wireless from the tower ?" "Doubtless you have guessed it.