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CHAPTER SIX The Indiscretions of the Same–––––––– I was standing stark naked next morning in that icy bedroom, trying to bathe in about a quart of water, when Stumm entered. He strode up to me and stared me in the face. I was half a head shorter than him to begin with, and a man does not feel his stoutest when he has no clothes, so he had the pull on me every way. 'I have reason to believe that you are a liar,' he growled. I pulled the bed-cover round me, for I was shivering with cold, and the German idea of a towel is a pocket-handkerchief. I own I was in a pretty blue funk. 'A liar!' he repeated. 'You and that swine Pienaar.' With my best effort at surliness I asked what we had done. 'You lied, because you said you know no German. Apparently your friend knows enough to talk treason