I was wholly right in obeying the orders that I received from Lieutenant Denton, and equally right in not communicating those orders to a class committee.

Nor could I refrain from reporting Mr.Jordan for breach of con.

That was my plain duty, more especially as Mr.Jordan is a member of the company that I command.

But the appearances have been all against me, and I have refused to explain.
The class is hardly to be blamed for condemning me, and I imagine that Mr.Jordan, in accusing me, has not been at all reticent.
Probably, too, he has taken no extreme pains to adhere to the exact truth.

I do not see how I can get out of the scrape in which I find myself.