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'Oh dear, oh dear, I'm afraid it's more enemy. You didn't sow the army-seed anywhere else, did you, H. O. dear? H. O. was positive he hadn't. 'But perhaps lots more came up where we did sow them, he said; 'they're all over England by now very likely. I don't know how many men can grow out of one dragon's tooth.
'They have come up a camp of soldiers, said Noel ARMED MEN. So you see it WAS history. We have sowed army-seed, just like Cadmus, and it has come up. It was a very wet night. I daresay that helped it along. Oswald could not decide which to disbelieve his brother or his ears. So, disguising his doubtful emotions without a word, he led the way to the bacon and the banqueting hall.
He said nothing about the army-seed then, neither did Noel and H. O. But after the bacon we went into the garden, and then the good elder brother said 'Why don't you tell the others your cock-and-bull story? So they did, and their story was received with warm expressions of doubt. It was Dicky who observed 'Let's go and have a squint at Randall's ten-acre, anyhow.
Oswald did think of lying in the ambush then, but it was rather wet, because of the rain the night before, that H. O. said had brought the army-seed up. And Alice walked very fast, saying nothing but 'Hurry up, can't you! and dragging H. O. by one hand and Noel by the other. So we got into the road. Then Alice faced round and said, 'This is all our fault.
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