"I have certainly seen you somewhere.

I thought that from the first.

Where was it ?" "I was in D Troop, Seventh Cavalry." "D Troop?
Brant's troop ?" The big gambler nodded.

"That's how I knew you, Captain," he said, speaking with greater ease, "but I never had no reason to say anything about it round here.

You was allers decent 'nough ter me." "Possibly,"-- and it was plainly evident from his quiet tone Hampton had steadied from his first surprise,--"the boot was on the other leg, and you had some good reason not to say anything." Slavin did not answer, but he wet his lips with his tongue, his eyes on the window.
"Who is this fellow Murphy ?" "He was corporal in that same troop, sir." The ex-cavalryman dropped insensibly into his old form of speech.