"Nothing unusual about shooting and bugle blowing and a general call to arms?"
"I didn't say that I heard those. Of course I didn't hear them."
"How did it happen, Macklin, that Captain Lyon and some men, after the raid that night, went to the jail to find you?"
"They didn't do it. I never heard of it, at all."
"Where was Corporal Miller that night?"
Captain Macklin was clearly relieved to get away from the story of his own personal movements on the night of that fateful 13th.
"Corporal Miller was in the barracks. He was present at both roll-calls."
"Very well, send for Corporal Miller. Send and get that Miller nigger and let me talk to him."
Corporal Miller came promptly. He carried his gun and wore the air of a major general. His manner was distinctly defiant and insolent. Nobody said anything for a moment, but Captain Bill's X-ray eyes were boring him through. Miller grew uneasy, shifted his feet and seemed to be shriveling. Major Blocksom said: