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You will explain, and satisfactorily, or——-" "Lieutenant Trent," retorted the other, savagely, "while you and I are officers of the same rating, my commission is older than yours, and I am ranking officer here.

From Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)