For over six weeks he was under arrest, or, as he preferred to put it, "having a rest." "So many of my friends are coming to see me," he said one day, "'that the grass is all trampled down in front.of my tent." The officers went to call on him, for, whether they agreed or not with his action, almost every one-.admited his pluck. No wonder! His offence was punishable with death.
The superior authorities must have been rather nonplussed with this unaccountable delinquent. The court martial, for which Capt. Hay was anxious, seemed never, to be coming off. Had he given in and made some sort of retractation, he easily could have been a free man. Then one day the trial actually did take place, under an officer sent down from' Army G. H. Q. To the astonishment of everybody, the verdict was al severe reprimand. What a sigh of relief broke from his friends, when they heard the remarkable news! The culprit quietly went back to his post on the Technical Staff, and the Chinese Prison sand the Disciplinary Corps Saw some significant reforms.
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