"What do you want, Overton? Maybe I've got it."
"Attention!"
"I'm listening," growled Hinkey, his whole carriage slouching.
"Stand at attention!"
"Hinkey, you're wholly disrespectful and insubordinate!"
Out of the corner of his eye the soldier saw his late companions silently drawing nearer.
"If I'm disrespectful, I'm disrespectful to nothing!" he retorted derisively.
Then he added with more insulting directness:
"Or to less than nothing!"
"Hinkey, are you going to stand at attention and be silent until I'm through with you?"