“You must believe me, sir; I’m telling the truth. Those words were written after I left. I did not write them and I haven’t the faintest idea who did.”
“No one else could have written them. You were the last man out except the instructor.”
“Some one else must have gotten in, sir. I know nothing about it.” Ralph spoke with tremendous earnestness.
“Mr. Moehler,” the commandant asked, “when you walked out of the room where did you go?”
“I stood in the doorway, sir, till the section marched off.”
“Did anybody enter while you stood there?”
“No, sir.”
“Are you certain?”
“Positive, sir. To have got in a person must have crowded by me, and none did.”
“Did you see anybody around?”