It was plain from his voice that he meditated no treachery.

"Oh! I was going to tell you.
It is a product of German ingenuity, designed, I believe, for the purpose of quelling riotous and insurrectionary prisoners.

It was efficacious, also, in taking pill boxes and clearing out dug-outs and the like.

With some care one is safe in using it in an ordinary ammonia gun--the sort policemen use on mad dogs.

Forgive me, if I say that you have demonstrated its utility in peace as well as in war.