Little did they guess that the coming event was of a nature destined soon to have the whole post at Fort Clowdry by the ears!
CHAPTER II
LIEUTENANT "ALGY" JOINS THE ARMY
IN at the gate down by post number one—in other words, at the guard house—turned an extremely large and costly-looking seven-passenger touring car.
At the driver's post sat an undersized, shrewd-looking little Frenchman.
Behind him, in one of the five seats of the tonneau sat a dapper-looking young man of medium height, with a soft, curly little moustache and dressed in the height of masculine fashion.
At post number one the car was halted, apparently much to the surprise of the solitary passenger, who leaned indolently forward and exchanged some words with the sentry.
"Gracious!" gasped Noll. "He must be a person of some importance, after all. There's the sentry presenting arms."