"I'm just out of hospital, and I'll be stuck on the home guard detail from B Company."
"Oh, I don't believe that," urged Noll soothingly.
"Wait and see."
There came a morning when Private Overton marched over to hospital with the other men on sick report.
"You seem to be doing pretty well now, Overton," remarked Lieutenant Gross, the surgeon.
"How are you going to mark me, sir, to-day?" breathed Hal anxiously.
"Duty," smiled the rainmaker.
"Thank goodness," murmured the soldier boy.
"Why, what's the matter with being marked quarters, Overton?"