“But statistics enable us to see the truth. Now, captain, at the battle of Bunker Hill, I saw a man——”
“You?” demanded Captain de Banyan.
“I said so.”
“Were you at the battle of Bunker Hill?”
“Didn’t you see me there?”
“Come, come, Somers; you shouldn’t trifle with the truth. I was not at the battle you speak of.”
“But I was——”
“You! You were not born till sixty years after the battle of Bunker Hill.”
“But I was—only illustrating your case.”
“Here comes an orderly with something from headquarters,” said Captain de Banyan, apparently as much rejoiced to change the conversation as the reader will be to have it changed.