"I understand you waited ten days for this, Captain Graham," he said.

"It's disgraceful that it should happen.

I am glad to have had an instance brought before me, as we have had too many cases of this sort of thing lately...." He broke off.

"Yes?
Colonel Lear?
Ah, good-morning, Colonel Lear.

This case of the movement order of Captain Graham has just been brought to me.