. Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography. herestraint and the monotony of camp Hfe and a soldiers duty,so they used to invent all sorts of excuses to get down intothe city of Cairo. One evening I was sitting in ColonelLogans tent when a young soldier whom we had known be-fore his enlistment came to the door and said that his sisterwas coming to Cairo on a night train, and as she was unac-customed to travelling he wished to go down to the city toawait her arrival and desired permission for himself andcomrade to go. It was an unusual request and should havebeen made through his cap
. Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography. herestraint and the monotony of camp Hfe and a soldiers duty,so they used to invent all sorts of excuses to get down intothe city of Cairo. One evening I was sitting in ColonelLogans tent when a young soldier whom we had known be-fore his enlistment came to the door and said that his sisterwas coming to Cairo on a night train, and as she was unac-customed to travelling he wished to go down to the city toawait her arrival and desired permission for himself andcomrade to go. It was an unusual request and should havebeen made through his captain. Colonel Logan was suspiciousthat it was not quite a straight story, but he ordered a passto be given them. He then sent his adjutant to the soldierscaptain with a request that he send Colonel Logan a corporaland a soldier. These he ordered to follow the first two, seewhere they went, and what they did, and if found in any im-proper place to arrest and bring the soldiers back to the guard-house of the camp, and leave them there till ten oclock on. U O A SOLDIERS WIFE 119 the following morning. It was discovered that they werenot expecting friends on the train and that they were in fora high old time, as the corporal reported. The corporalwaited until they were both quite drunk, then he arrestedthem and brought them to the guard-house as ordered. Thenext morning, when they were marched to the colonels tent,they were the worst-looking culprits that could be imagined,and when Colonel Logan, with a serious face, inquired if thesister had arrived, where she was, and such questions, the poorfellow looked as if he were under sentence of death. He ac-knowledged the fraud he had practised and said he waswilling to suffer any punishment the colonel might inflict;that he had forfeited all respect by lying and had nothingto say in extenuation of his conduct. The colonel looked athim sternly, administered a lecture on lying and his detesta-tion of liars, and then ordered that the offen
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