At the end of the hearing Mock and Wilhelm were returned to the guard-house looking much crestfallen.
"Did you hear what they said to me ?" Mock was overheard to demand of Wilhelm.

"Said they'd have me tried for saying I'd desert, and that I'd be likely to get several years in prison for talking too much.

Oh, I'm sure sick of being in this man's army!" "Sure!" nodded Wilhelm, understandingly.

"It's tough!" "It'll be tougher, I warrant ye, if we hear ye two blackguards using any more of your line of talk around here," Riley broke in.

"The guar-rd won't be forever stopping our pounding ye!" After that Mock and Wilhelm were left severely alone by their fellow-prisoners in the bull-pen.