When the government agent saw Horn in jail at Machias, and warned him that what he said would be used against him in proceedings for his extradition into Canada, or prosecution here, Horn told the same straightforward story, with the same embellishment about “Tommy.” “I met a white man,” so Horn said, “whom I had never seen before, but who was about 35 or 40 years of age clean shaven--‘Tommy’--I was told to say ‘Tommy’ when I met him--I cannot say anything that would involve the consulate or the embassy--Germany is at war--I received, however, an order which was from one who had a right to give it, a verbal order only--received it two or three days before leaving New York for Vanceboro.” Later he said: “I cannot speak of the rank of the man who gave the orders--I cannot even say that he was an officer. No one was present when the orders were given me in New York City. I cannot tell more because it was a matter for the Fatherland. I would rather go to Canada [where he knew they wanted to lynch him] than to tell more about my orders--this would be impossible--at least until after the war is over.” Horn admitted he had met Von Papen several times at the German Club in New York City, but no art could compel him to admit that he had got his orders from him. But, as the agent noticed, his manner gave his words the lie; and whenever he tried to tell anything that was inaccurate he did so with great difficulty and embarrassment. But finding him determined, at whatever risk, to withhold this information, and determined, too, to stick to the absurd story about “Tommy,” the agent wrote out by typewriter a statement of the facts as he had given them for Horn to sign. Horn read the statement over and said that he would sign it. Then the agent took out his pen, added a few items of new information, and wrote these words: “I certify on my honour as a German officer that the foregoing statements are true,” and handed Horn the pen to sign it. Horn read the last sentence and seemed nonplussed. He turned back through the pages of the statement, blushed, scratched his head, and finally grinned up at the agent with the one word: “Tommy.” The agent grinned in turn: “You mean it’s all right except for Tommy?” “Yes.” Horn would not sign a lie and pledge his honour it was truth. A close scrutiny of the cut on page 57 will show where the period after the word “true” has been erased, so that the sentence could go on to say, before he signed it, “except as to ‘Tommy’--that I did not buy the nitro-glycerine but received it in New York and took it with me in the suitcase. I cannot say from whom I received it. Werner Horn.” [Illustration: WERNER HORN’S CONFESSION (first page)]