"No."
"A note must be made of that negative. And then you entered the Landwehr?"
"Yes."
"Your reason?"
Boleslav indicated, with a motion of his head, the companion of his boyhood.
"Because I did not wish to meet that man."
Felix gave a scoffing laugh, and exclaimed, "Else the swindle would----" A sign from the Landrath silenced him.
"Your Landwehr regiment, if you please?"
Boleslav cited the commandant's name.
The Landrath bowed low over the portfolio till his shock of hair almost concealed his faded shrunken face.