But there was a difference between myself and the other officers, because _I knew my man_ and they did not.

They saw in you a common soldier, and I knew you for a gentleman.

To them your evidence was a leash of lies, which they yawned to hear you telling.

Now, I was asking myself, how far will a gentleman go?
Not surely so far as to help hush a murder up?
So that--when I heard you tell how you knew nothing of the matter, and were only awakened by the corporal, and all the rest of it--I translated your statements into something else.

Now, Champdivers,' he cried, springing up lively and coming towards me with animation, 'I am going to tell you what that was, and you are going to help me to see justice done: how, I don't know, for of course you are under oath--but somehow.