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Ellis and Rindle were plainly non-plussed by Dick's passionate appeal to their broader sense of right and truth. "I'm afraid you two have been patting yourselves on the back in the idea that you stood out for a great moral principle," Captain Prescott resumed.
Now, observe the original position of these marks, meres, and boundaries that is, of this hut, this clough, this rindle, and this dyke exactly corresponds with the description given of them by the man Device, who dwells in the place, and who is, therefore, a person most likely to be accurately acquainted with the country; and yet, though he has only been absent two days, changes the most surprising have taken place changes so surprising, indeed, that he scarcely knows the way to his own house, and certainly never could find the path which he has described as leading to Hook Cliff, since it is entirely obliterated.
And you are a conscientious objector, too, are you, Rindle?" "I -I thought I was, sir," confessed the soldier. "Your questions, sir, and your way of putting the case confuse me." "And you, Pitson?" Dick demanded, eyeing the third man.
By this time they had reached the borders of Worston Moor, which had been hitherto concealed by a piece of rising ground, covered with gorse and brushwood, and Jem's hut, together with the clough, the rindle, and the dyke, came distinctly into view.
Privates Ellis, Rindle and Pitson speedily reported in the office, saluting, then standing at attention. "You men are all conscientious objectors?" Prescott asked coldly. "Yes, sir," said the three together. "You all have conscientious objections to being hurt?" Prescott went on. "I have conscientious scruples against killing a human being, sir," replied Private Ellis.
"There stands the hut," he said, "and instead of being behind the clough, it is on one side of it, while the door certainly does not face the moor, neither is the rindle in front of the dwelling or near it; while the dyke, which is the main and important boundary line between the properties, runs above two hundred yards further west than formerly.
Private Ellis swallowed hard before he replied: "No, sir; I'm not a moral slacker, for I've changed my mind. I'm going to fight if I'm told to. I'm going to do whatever Uncle Sam wants me to do. You've put the matter in a different light to me, Captain Prescott." "And you, Rindle?"
Do it like this -smartly, without jerk. No; that's not right, either. Hold your hand horizontally when it touches your hat-brim. Hold it the way I am doing. Don't be in a hurry to let hand fall, either. When saluting an officer, keep the hand at the hat-brim until he has returned the salute, or you've passed him. There, you have it right now, Rindle.
During the next drill period Sergeant Kelly, hearing an angry voice, glanced out through the window. In the last draft to the company some green recruits had come in, men who had been drafted to the National Army and sent to the Regulars to fill up. Among them were Privates Ellis and Rindle. "About face!" rapped out the crisp tones of Corporal Barrow, as he glared at eight men in double rank.
"It stonds behind yon kloof, ot soide o' t' moor, wi' a rindle in front." "Now mind what you say, sirrah," cried Potts. "You are quite sure the hut is behind the clough; and the rindle, which, being interpreted from your base vernacular, I believe means a gutter, in front of it?"
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