Listen.
You have friends still in power, Monsieur Guillot ?--friends in the Cabinet, is it not so ?" "It is indeed true," Monsieur Guillot assented.
"You have, too," Granet continued, "a great following throughout France.
You are the man for the task I bring to you.

You, if you choose, shall save your country and earn the reward she will surely bestow upon you." Monsieur Guillot's cheeks were flushed a little.

With long, nervous fingers he rolled a cigarette and lit it.
"Monsieur," he said, "I listen to you eagerly, and yet I am puzzled.

You wear the uniform of an English officer, but you come to me, is it not so, as an emissary of Germany ?" "In bald words that may be true," Granet confessed, "yet I would remind you of two things.

First, that the more dominant part of the personality which I have inherited comes to me from Alsatian ancestors; and secondly, that this peace for which I am striving may in the end mean salvation for England, too." "I hear you with relief," Monsieur Guillot admitted.