"I give you my promise, sir."
"Don't talk nonsense."
"It shall be as I say."
"Whatever the prisoners' rank? Whatever their social position?"
"Yes, sir."
"And by regular means, means that can be avowed?"
"By means to which there can be no possible objection."
The general looked at Paul again with the eye of a leader who is in the habit of judging men and reckoning them at their true value. He knew that the man before him was not a boaster, but a man of action and a man of his word, who went straight ahead and kept his promises. He replied:
"Very well, Delroze, you shall have your list to-morrow."