... the spot that the only German who is promptly interned is one who does not appear to have enough stamina to be a spy of any kind. The first spy we meet is J oseph Aimer, the Swiss manager of the Hotel Splendide. In one of his less wary moments he exclaims ...

... command me to yield up my rifle And the Colonel answered him, and said How do you know I might be a Hun, a disguised Hun, a spy. 1 cannot understand et seq. ...