Then just as I got up yere, this feller come tearin' 'long, an' I naturally grabbed him.
That's the whole of it." "What have you got to say, Hamlin ?" "Nothing." "Well, yer better.

Yer in a mighty bad box, let me tell yer," angered by the other's indifference.

"What was the row about ?" The cavalryman stood straight, his face showing white in the glow of the lantern.
"I told you before I had nothing to say.

I will talk to-morrow," he returned quietly.

"I submit to arrest." "I reckon yer will talk to-morrow, and be damn glad o' the chance.
Corporal, take this fellow to the guard-house, an' stay there with him.
Here comes the stretcher, an' the doctor." Hamlin marched off silently through the black night, surrounded by a detail of the guard.