BAD BLOOD COMES TO THE SURFACE Later in the evening the surgeon came around.

After examining Sergeant Mock's feet for twenty minutes, and testing the skin as well, he pronounced Mock a shammer.
Mock was sent to the guard-house for twenty-four hours.

The next morning an order was published reducing the sergeant to the rank of private.

Yet, on the whole, the ex-sergeant looked pleased in a sullen, disagreeable sort of way.

He had listened to the stranger.
Greg, however, had other troubles on his hands.