Curtain.
Scene 2
A Government office. A Clerk is seated at a table, and a Sentinel is pacing up and down. Enter a General with his Adjutant. The Clerk jumps up, the Sentinel presents arms.
GENERAL. Where is the Colonel?
CLERK. Gone to see that new conscript, Your Excellency.
GENERAL. Ah, very well. Ask him to come here to me.
CLERK. Yes, Your Excellency.
GENERAL. And what are you copying out? Isn't it the conscript's evidence?
CLERK. Yes, sir, it is.
GENERAL. Give it here.