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The second lieutenant sat back sullenly with a deep red streaking his cheeks

"You're no angel yourself, Bob, see?" went on the first lieutenant lying back in his seat in satisfied triuet a ten days' leave! Put that in your pipe and slance at the second lieutenant showed that he was most effectually silenced

The front door of the car slammed open and shut, and a tall slies of his dark hair, and a look of command in his keen eyes ca lieutenants sat up with a jerk, and an undertone of oaths, and prepared to salute as he passed thelance as he saluted and went on to the next car

The two jerked out salutes and settled back uneasily

"Thatto soothe his ruffled spirits by a fresh cigarette

"He thinks he's so doggone good hiet theot to be a captain--a priht puzzle soot your comel, either, and there are sos in your career that aren't exactly laid down in military manuals"

"Oh, my uncle Henry looked after my commission It was a cinch! He thinks the sun rises and sets in me, and he had no idea how he perjured hiest men in the country for ht if they knew! Oh Boy! I thought I'd croak when I read soushed with praise You'd have died laughing, Bob, if you had read them They had such adjectives as 'estimable, moral, active, efficient,' and one went so far as to say that I was equally distinguished in college in scholarship and athletics! Sohed loudly over this

"And the best of it is," continued the first lieutenant, "the poor boob believed it was all true!"

"But your college records, Harry, how could they get around those? Or didn't they look you up?"