Like a trumpet his sonorous voice rang out steady and clear.
"Fall in, men! Boat quarters! Silence there!" He followed this with sharp, intelligible commands to his N.C.O.'s.
Like magic, order fell upon the turbulent, struggling crowd.
"Stand steady, you there!" roared the sergeant major, who having got control of his men, began to indulge himself in a few telling and descriptive adjectives.
In less than two minutes, the men were standing steady as a rock and the panic was passed.
"Who was it that laughed up there in that stampede ?" inquired the O.C., when the officers were gathered about him in the orderly room.
"I think it was the Sky Pilot, sir--the chaplain, sir," said Lieutenant Stewart Duff.
"Was it you that laughed, Captain Dunbar ?" asked the colonel, turning upon Barry.
"Perhaps I did, sir.

I'm sorry if--" "Sorry!" exclaimed the colonel.

"Dammit, sir, you saved the situation for us all.

Who told you it was a false alarm ?" "No one, sir.

I didn't know it was a false alarm.