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Updated: May 6, 2025
As Barry was passing the sergeants' mess-room the door opened and there came out Sergeant Major McFetteridge himself, with two others of the mess. "Good evening, sergeant major," said Barry quietly passing on his way. "Good evening, sir," said the sergeant major with his usual stiff salute. "Oh, it's you, sir," he cried as the light fell upon Barry's face. "We're glad to see you back, sir."
"What do you say to that, Sergeant Major McFetteridge?" In reply, the sergeant major gave a full and fair statement of the passage between the chaplain and himself the day before. "Is this correct, Captain Dunbar?" asked the O. C. "Substantially correct, sir, except that the sergeant major is here on his own suggestion, and on no order of mine."
A notable exception in the battalion, however, was Sergeant Major McFetteridge, who, because of his military experience, and of his reputation as a disciplinarian, had been recently transferred to the battalion.
"Very good, sir," replied the sergeant major. "I shall report myself at once." The day following, the chaplain received an order to appear before the O. C. in the orderly room. "Captain Dunbar, I understand that you are making a charge against Sergeant Major McFetteridge," was Colonel Leighton's greeting. "I am making no charge against any one, sir," replied Barry quietly.
Under the patient shepherding of Barry's father, he had endured much without protest or complaint, but, with the advent of Sergeant Major McFetteridge, with his rigid military discipline and his strict insistence upon etiquette, McCuaig passed into a new atmosphere.
To the freeborn and freebred recruit from the Athabasca plains, the stiff and somewhat exaggerated military bearing of the sergeant major was at first a source of quiet amusement, later of perplexity, and finally of annoyance. For McFetteridge and his minutiae of military discipline McCuaig held only contempt. To him, the whole business was a piece of silly nonsense unworthy of serious men.
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