You see, a little thing like a bullet changed it all.

For if the bullet hadn't got me, I assure you I wouldn't have given Kedsty that confession, and an innocent man would have been hanged.

As it is, Kedsty is shocked, demoralized.

I'm the first man to soil the honor of the finest Service on the face of the earth, and I'm in Kedsty's division.

Quite natural that he should be upset.