"Prince Conrad."
"A son of the Kaiser's?"
"Yes. He left the château yesterday, late in the day."
"And did the major spend the night here?"
"I suppose so; at any rate, he was there this morning. We fired the mines and left . . . a bit late, for I was wounded near this lodge . . . near the wall. . . ."
Paul mastered his emotion and said:
"You mean, the wall against which your people shot three French civilians, don't you?"
"Yes."
"When were they shot?"
"About six o'clock in the afternoon, I believe, before we arrived from Corvigny."