"You want to look out for Hyman, Hal," Noll passed word forward.
"Why?"
"He says you stole his bacon from his haversack this morning and he's going to set a steel trap in his haversack to-night."
"Hyman doesn't know the truth when he halts it on sentry post," Overton retorted. "Hyman hasn't had any bacon in his haversack since we started from Fort Clowdry."
"How do you know?" demanded Private Hyman, who happened to overhear this statement.
"Because I've gotten up every night and looked through your haversack for bacon," declared Private Overton unblushingly.
"I heard to-day why you joined the Army," grunted Hyman.
"Yes?" grinned Hal.
"Sure! You had some trouble with the sheriff at home over stealing the flowers from the cemetery and selling them to get cigarette money. You're a nice one, Overton, to be entrusted with government property!"