midnight
Twice Mrs. Clifford has asked me very significant questions , and three times to-day have officers made remarks to me that indicated their knowledge of the existence of some grave trouble . What makes matters worse is that Jerrold , when twitted about his absence from reveille , loses his temper and gets confused . There came near being a quarrel between him and Rollins at the mess a day or two since . He was saying that the reason he slept through roll-call was the fact that he had been kept up very late at the doctor 's party , and Rollins happened to come in at the moment and blurted out that if he was up at all it must have been after he left the party , and reminded him that he had left before midnight with Miss Renwick . This completely staggered Jerrold , who grew confused and tried to cover it with a display of anger . Now , two weeks ago Rollins was most friendly to Jerrold and stood up for him when I assailed him , but ever since that night he has had no word to say for him . When Jerrold played wrathful and accused Rollins of mixing in other men 's business , Rollins bounced up to him like a young bull-terrier , and I believe there would have been a row had not Sloat and Hoyt promptly interfered .