"'Go and fetch a lantern,' says he.
"Off goes the Corporal and gets one.
"Then the officer says:
"'Some one has been smoking here, let the man come forward.'
"Of course nobody moves because nobody has done it, for 'twas the Corporal all along.
"'Very well,' the officer says; 'let's have your numbers,' and he tells the Corporal to put them down.
"Mine was the highest as it happened, and on finding this out the officer says:
"'You put eight days' Salle de Police to that trooper.'
"When the officer has gone I go out to the Corporal—he was a Hussar chap, and so was the officer—and I tell him that it's not right what he's done, and that he knows well enough that it's him that had been smoking, so he turns savage on me, and he says: