Get out of this till I send for you.' As I looked at his foolish, irritable face I realized that I was fairly UP against it.

Short of assault and battery on everybody I was bound to submit.

I saluted respectfully and was marched away.
The hours I spent in that bare anteroom are like a nightmare in my recollection.

A sergeant was busy at a desk with more buff dockets and an orderly waited on a stool by a telephone.

I looked at my watch and observed that it was one o'clock.