I calculated if at Hal I had luck in finding a taxicab, by lunch time I should be in the Palace Hotel.
"I think," said the officer, "you had better see our general.

He is ahead of us." I thought he meant a few hundred yards ahead, and to be ordered back by a general seemed more convincing than to be returned by a mere captain.

So I started to walk on beside the mounted officers.
This, as it seemed to presume equality with them, scandalized them greatly, and I was ordered into the ranks.

But the one who had arrested me thought I was entitled to a higher rating and placed me with the color-guard, who objected to my presence so violently that a long discussion followed, which ended with my being ranked below a second lieutenant and above a sergeant.

Between one of each of these I was definitely placed, and for five hours I remained definitely placed.