"No, sir—I hate it."
"You're playin' the same part Tom Sawyer played?"
"I don't know."
"Did you hate it when you hid the pistol and didn't tell any one?"
"Yes, sir."
"And did you hate it up to the time you told your father?"
"Yes, sir."
"And you hate it now?"
"Yes, sir—but it's my duty."
Major Scott said to the judge, "I move to strike out those words 'but it's my duty.'" The judge said, "stricken out," then Major Abbott said: