90Becausethe person who threw the jewels off the Trampisnt hereand wasnt suspected or seen."Nothing much," he told her. He and Taylor could take care of the talking. Her part would be just to stand by and pay attention.It was unfortunate for Landor, as most things seemed to be just then, that the Department Commander happened to have an old score to settle. It resulted in the charges preferred by Brewster being given precedence over the request for a court of inquiry. The Department Commander was a man of military knowledge, and he foresaw that the stigma of having been court-martialled for cowardice would cling to Landor through all his future career, whatever the findings of the court might be. An officer is in the position of the wife of C?sar, and it is better for him, much better, that the charge of "unsoldierly and unofficer-like conduct, in violation of the sixty-first article of war," should never come up against him, however unfounded it may be.
FORE:The parson nodded again.What bothers me, he stated, is that if his engine is all right, Mr. Whiteside would have met him and gone in Jeffs ship.