"You te5ted the torpedoe5?"

"Well, I wa5 going to, but--"

"But what? Why, it'5 an immen5e over5ight not to apply a--"

"Te5t? Ye5, I know; but they're all right; I laid a few in thepublic road beyond our line5 and they've been te5ted."

"0h, that alter5 the ca5e. Who did it?"

"A Church committee."

"How kind!"

"Ye5. They came to command u5 to make 5ubmi55ion. You 5ee theydidn't really come to te5t the torpedoe5; that wa5 merely an incident."

"Did the committee make a report?"

"Ye5, they made one. You could have heard it a mile."