Give me back those papers." [Illustration: "Give me back those papers."] He had the envelope still clasped in his left hand, and he glanced at it dully, and then beyond me toward Hutton.

Apparently his brain, yet numbed by the blow, failed to entirely comprehend.

The Lieutenant, however, was a man of action.

With grip on his collar he jerked the poor wretch to his feet, and held him there.
"Hand over those papers to Craig," he ordered shortly, "and be lively about it.

I have n't anything to do with that affair, and I don't think you will have much more from now on.