He wouldn""t come after me, not him.Regiment, service, duty! Why should I stand what you did for them? Why should I? Why should any of us? Why?McGregor slaps Stone across the face: "I told you to forget it," and then explains his sense of stiff upper-lip British duty to loyally serve, echoing advice he had heard earlier from Major Hamilton: "There are some things they don""t teach you in military college.But the experience - and everything they know about duty, honor, courage and manhood (expressed in the first act""s ritualistic deer-hunting sequence) - is wrenched apart and shattered in the face of the gruesome war.The two were ied together by 29 inch long shackles, and faced a hostile posse of townspeople and authorities, a lynching mob, barking bloodhounds, and a swamp.]Introduction of Various Other Stock Characters:The first of many inter-titles introduced each additional character by listing a description of he character and the actor""s real name (as if it were the character""s name).