Foiled in that direction, and attributing his discomfiture to the fact that the military map was quite inadequate to present needs, the Lieutenant wrote in his notebook again.
"How you arrive at our lines?" continued the inquisitor.
Malcolm thought fit to reply in a totally irrelevant string of Maori phrases, concluding with " Haeremai te kai " (come to dinner) and a decisive shake of his head.
By the time he had finished the Hun lieutenant's face was a study in angry astonishment.
"It is evident," he remarked in German to his companion, "that the prisoner is one of the Englander's mercenaries--from Portugal, perhaps, or even from one of those outlandish and unheard-of nations that have presumptuously declared war against us. The fact that his identity disc proclaims him to be a New Ze
