But a civilian is under no such restrictions.

As some of you fellows know, my cousin, Sloan, was here at the Academy yesterday.
Now, Ben Sloan is a newspaper man, and a fellow of an inquiring disposition.

I told Ben something about the scrape I had been in, and Ben soon afterward hunted up Grierson.

Grierson told Ben the whole truth about it.

It seems that Grierson did not have any information from anyone.