CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME DISTINCTION BETWEEN SOLDIERLY DUTY AND MURDER--A PLOT TO ESCAPE -- IT IS REVEALED AND FRUSTRATED.
Let the reader understand that in any strictures I make I do not complain of the necessary hardships of war.

I understood fully and accepted the conditions of a soldier's career.

My going into the field uniformed and armed implied an intention, at least, of killing, wounding, or capturing, some of the enemy.

There was consequently no ground of complaint if I was, myself killed, wounded, or captured.

If I did not want to take these chances I ought to stay at home.