WAR
"Come, come! We are losing time. Campbell will take it down."
Campbell got out some paper and a pencil.
"Now, sir, quickly, and briefly, what was the other thing you did when you came North from Virginia?"
"Fell in love," says Dave, still solemn.
"What? What's that? Campbell, never mind, just yet. Now, then, sir, repeat that and I'll arrest you!" yells the officer.
"Then I won't repeat it," says Dave.
"Do you hear that, Campbell?—he refuses to repeat his confession. Put him under—"
Campbell salutes and says:
"The only thing he has confessed, sir, as far as I can see, is that he has fallen in love."
"Is that so, sir?" thunders the lieutenant.
"That you have confessed nothing but falling in love?"
"That's all," sighs Dave, like he was tired, and winking hard at me.
"Well, sir. I've a great mind to arrest you for that, sir!"
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