"You admit, then, that you are guilty of the charges that have been brought against you?"
Waterman shrugged his shoulders scornfully.
"You admit that you, an officer in the British Army, have given away your country's secrets and become an ally to the enemy?"
Waterman laughed. "I have simply tried to serve my own country," was his reply, "the country which will soon conquer yours."
Every eye was fixed upon him; the man's brazen confession almost staggered them.
"Then you are a German!"
"Yes," replied Waterman proudly.
The President looked at him keenly, and then turned towards some papers.
"I see that you claim English birth, that you were educated at an English public school, and that you went into an English house of business."
"That doesn't make me cease to be a German," replied Waterman.