Harry leaned back lazily, but St.Clair spoke up quickly.
"We've been having conversations off and on with the enemy for two years," he said.

"We've had some mighty hot talks with bullets and cannon balls, and some not so hot with words.

Just now we were having one of the class labelled 'not so hot.'" "What's the matter with you Johnnies ?" was called across.

"You've broken off the talk just when it was getting interesting.

Are you going to back out on that bet?
We thought you had better manners.