You'd be too much afraid that someone else wanted either honor." Prescott laughed good humoredly.

Then, dropping his voice, he went on very gravely: "Durry, you've behaved very nicely to me in more ways than one, after that time when I necessarily reported you.

Are you sure that you wholly overlooked my act." "Glad you asked me, Prescott.

I've come to realize that you did your full duty, and the only thing you could do as the captain of my company.

But I was terribly upset that night.