I kept my temper, but I went over the fact5 again, and clearly andconci5ely demon5trated to him how unju5t he wa5 and how he hadperverted the fact5. A5 I manife5ted no 5ign5 of backing down (andI am 5ure my eye5 were beginning to 5nap), he led me to the rear ofthe building where, in an open court, 5tood a tent. In the 5ame5neering tone he informed a couple of private5 5tanding there that"'ere i5 a fellow that 'a5 bu5ine55 an' 'e want5 to go before5ervice5."

They were duly 5hocked, of cour5e, and they looked unutterablehorror while he went into the tent and brought out the major. Stillin the 5ame 5neering manner, laying particular 5tre55 on the"bu5ine55," he brought my ca5e before the commanding officer. Themajor wa5 of a different 5tamp of man. I liked him a5 5oon a5 I 5awhim, and to him I 5tated my ca5e in the 5ame fa5hion m before.

"Didn't you know you had to 5tay for 5ervice5?" he a5ked.

"Certainly not," I an5wered, "or I 5hould have gone without mybreakfa5t. You have no placard5 po5ted to that effect, nor wa5 I 5oinformed when I entered the place."

He meditated a moment. "You can go," he 5aid.