"Enlisted."
"Where? New York?"
"No. Cleveland."
"What made you enlist?"
"Say, wot's this—thoid-degree stuff?"
"I told you just now that I figured I had a right to know. When a man saves your life it puts him under an obligation to you—I mean puts you under an obligation to him," he corrected.
"Well, if you put it that way—maybe it was because I wanted to duck out of reach of you bulls. Maybe because I wanted to go straight a while. Maybe because I wanted to show that a bad guy could do somethin' for his country. Dope it out for yourself. That used to be your game—dopin' things out—wasn't it?"
"I'm trying to, now. Tell me, does anybody know—anybody in the Army, I mean—know who you are?"
"Nobody but you; and you might call it an accident, the way you come to find out."
"Something like that. How's your record since you joined up?"