Here, by this spring, we were put under arrest by a corporal and four troopers.

Naturally, I presented your pass, but the corporal refused to honor it.

He then left me under guard and hurried off to headquarters with the pass in his possession." At this unwelcome news Morrison's head jerked back as if he had been struck and his lips tightened.

Without the addition of another word to Cary's story he saw all the dire consequences to himself of what had been an act of the commonest humanity.

Yes, in other times it would have been what any right thinking human being would have done for another in distress, but, unhappily, this was war time and the best of motives were only too often mis-read.