The man was blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized him by the collar and was pommeling him.

He drove him back into the ranks with many blows.

The soldier went mechanically, dully, with his animal-like eyes upon the officer.

Perhaps there was to him a divinity expressed in the voice of the other--stern, hard, with no reflection of fear in it.

He tried to reload his gun, but his shaking hands prevented.