But the arrival of the two policemen in the passage showed that he had to do what I asked him.

This he did, and the interpreter also, and the police took their names and addresses.

Then I let my friends go, and heard them depart into the street hurling denunciations and threats of vengeance upon my devoted and loyal head.
It was about a week or ten days afterwards that I was called into our own Brigadier's office.

He held a bundle of letters in his hand stamped with all sorts of official seals.

The gist of it all was that the G.O.C.
of the Indian Division in France had reported to General Alderson the extraordinary and eccentric conduct of a Canadian Chaplain, who (p.