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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Who will be scoutmaster, sir. if you go to the war?" asked Harry. "I'm not quite sure," said Grenfel. "We haven't decided yet. But it will be someone you can trust be sure of that. And I think I needn't say that if you scouts have any real regard for me you will show it best by serving as loyally and as faithfully under him as you have under me.
It had been necessary to modify certain rules. Harry, of course, could not subscribe to quite the same scout oath that bound his English fellows. But he had taken his scout oath as a tenderfoot at home, and Grenfel had no doubts about him. He was the sort of boy the organization wanted, whether in England or America, and that was enough for Grenfel.
You wouldn't want a lot of German roughs to come and destroy your house or your shop and handle you that way, would you?" "It's not the same thing," said Dick, stubbornly. "They're foreigners." "But you'd be a foreigner if you were over there!" said Harry, with a laugh. "I suppose I would," said Dick. "I never thought of that! Just the same, I bet Mr. Grenfel was right. London's full of spies.
Her eyes were fixed upon her lap, the lids half closed, as though in reverie, yet with that perspicuous and reflective look which showed her conscious of all that was passing round her even the effect of her own pose. Her name was Jasmine Grenfel. She was not oblivious of the music.
"Why, there won't be any fighting in England, sir, will there?" asked Dick Mercer, in surprise. "We all hope not," said Grenfel. "But that's not what I mean. It doesn't take an army to destroy a railroad. One man with a bomb and a time fuse attached to it can blow up a culvert and block a whole line so that precious hours might be lost in getting troops aboard a transport.
The two scouts looked up to see the smiling face of their scoutmaster, John Grenfel. He was a big, bronzed Englishman, sturdy and typical of the fine class to which he belonged public school and university man, first- class cricketer and a football international who had helped to win many a hard fought game for England from Wales or Scotland or Ireland.
The scouts were returning from a picnic on Wimbledon Common, in the suburbs of London, and Grenfel was following his usual custom of dropping into step now with one group, now with another.
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