After about twenty minutes' wait Jack heard the sound of approaching
footsteps outside and the clink of accoutrements that denoted the
approach of an armed body of some sort. The sentry at the door came
to attention and saluted the leader of a file of some ten men who
halted and set their guns down with a thud that Jack could plainly
hear in the wireless station. There was a short exchange of words
at the door and then the commander of the detail stalked over and
took a look at the prisoner. Jack looked up to see before him a
brawny German in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Imperial German
Navy.
"Who are you?" the officer demanded.
Jack shook his head in reply.
"How did you get here?" came the command more sharply.
Still Jack kept silence.
"Search him!" ordered the officer, and after a search that revealed
nothing, he added in German:
"Take him away---we'll go into his record later. He's only a boy anyhow,
and boy spies are not worth bothering about in this man's war.
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