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Notwithstanding this, and his great disadvantages arising out of the secresy he was compelled to observe, Captain Warde's observations were so accurate and complete, that Lord Exmouth afterwards sent to the Admiralty his original plan, to illustrate the despatches of the battle.
"It doesn't make any difference whether one scout goes with you or two." With such high legal authority as this, Warde's mind was at rest. He was the newest scout in the troop and a member of Roy's patrol, the Silver Foxes. He had made a great hit in the troop and was immensely liked.
"The size, or, as we should rather say, the height of a fox-hound, is a point on which there has been much difference of opinion. Mr. Chule's pack was three inches below the standard of Mr. Villebois', and four inches below that of Mr. Warde's.
Lord Nelson, founding probably on erroneous information, and not having seen the place, had said that twenty-five line-of-battle ships would be necessary to subdue it. Our Admiral, with Captain Warde's correct plan in his pocket, knew that there was not room for even half that number of ships to be laid alongside the town. The Admiralty strongly urged him to take a powerful fleet.
Afterwards Warde remembered this impassivity. "If I do not act" Warde's voice trembled "I am damned as a traitor in my own eyes." John had never doubted that his house-master would act. As for creeping and crawling, can peaks be scaled without creeping and crawling? Never "You are not to speak a word of warning," Warde continued vehemently.
I saw him come back, and I saw Dumber waiting for him. When Dumber came out of Warde's room, he told me that Jonathan had been up to town, and was going to be sacked." He blurted out the rest of the story, to which Scaife listened attentively. When Desmond finished, there was a pause. "You're devilish clever," said Scaife to John. "I shall pay up the pony," said Desmond.
But the Manor, as a corporate body, when it heard of Warde's refusal to accept promotion, was profoundly impressed. Thus the term began with good resolutions upon the part of the better sort. Very soon, however, with the shortening days, bridge began again. John made no protest, afraid of losing his pal.
"Anyway I was a scout then, because I was in the Ravens and anyway I've got to go to the store." Before they realized it he was gone. "What the dickens did you want to say that for?" Roy asked Warde. "Oh, it just jumped out of my mouth," Warde said; "I didn't think he'd be so touchy. Wait, I'll call him back." But the sturdy little figure trudging down the hill paid no attention to Warde's call.
John gazed across the familiar fields to the huge city on the horizon. Soon night would fall, darkness would encompass all things. And then, out of the mirk, would shine the lamps of London. Warde's voice put his thoughts to instant flight. Some intuition told John that something had happened. Warde said quietly "A letter has come for you in Harry Desmond's hand-writing."
Could John bear it? John nodded. Since the first breakdown in Warde's study, his heart seemed to have turned to ice. His religious sense, hitherto strong and vital, failed him entirely. He abandoned prayer. Evensong was over in Harrow Chapel. "The Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me."
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