CHAPTER XV.
ON TRIAL BY COURT-MARTIAL Tuesday was the day for the court-martial.
In the Army there is little patience with the law's delays.
A trial must move ahead as promptly as any other detail of the soldier's life.

Nothing can hinder a trial but the inability to get all the evidence ready early.

In Cadet Prescott's case the evidence seemed so simple as to require no delay whatever.
The weather had been growing warmer within a short time.

When Dick and Greg awoke at sound of reveille, they heard the heavy rain no sign of daylight yet.
When the battalion turned out and formed to march to breakfast a more dispiriting day could not be imagined.

The rain was converting deep snow into a dismal flood.
But Dick barely noticed the weather.