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I see one onst at Reading Vair, I did, a nippin' about he wur, and a roarin'! I bain't goin' to hev naught to do with the likes o' he! Tinling saw only one hope left. If he could see Mrs. Jolliffe and tell her of the danger which threatened him, she might refuse permission to fight at all, or, at the very least, she would see that he had proper assistance.
'Very likely they are washing their hands, said her mother. 'So like them! murmured Uncle Lambert in confidence to his tea-cake. 'But here's the noble General, at all events. Well, Field Marshal, what have you done with the Standing Army? Tinling addressed himself to his hostess. 'Oh, Mrs. Jolliffe, I'm so sorry I was late, but I had just to run round to the stables for a minute.
I shall take care this affair is generally known. And the poor army looked on with hot cheeks and envious eyes. But for Cecily, they might have been heroes, too! Even Hazel seemed to have understood that a really brilliant victory had been achieved; she brought Tinling a magnificent flag of pink glazed calico, on which she had painted in crimson letters: 'Indians' Terror.
Jolliffe came down presently, and he took her in to dinner with one of his tiresome jokes. No one seemed at all anxious about poor Tinling, fighting all alone down in the paddock. She curled herself up on a settee by one of the open windows, and listened, trying to catch the sound of Indian yells. 'Hazel, she said anxiously, 'do you think the Indians will hurt Tinling?
Hazel watched Tinling closely as he read the paper. She was soon compelled to own that she had done him a great injustice. He was certainly as far as possible from betraying the slightest fear; on the contrary, his eye seemed actually to brighten with satisfaction.
'S-s-h Cave! cried Guy, suddenly, as he looked through the loophole; 'I can see just the top of one's head and feathers among the currant bushes. I'll touch him up in a second. He raised his tiny spring pistol, and was just aiming, when Tinling, almost beside himself, darted on him, and struck it out of his hand. 'What are you doing now? he said, through his teeth.
'Oh, all right, said Jack, who was a sweet-tempered boy, 'we won't do it again. And they went off to carry out their separate instructions, Clarence Tinling remaining by the cedar. 'I have to be a little sharp now and then, he explained. 'Why, if I didn't keep an iron rule over them, they'd be getting insubordinate in no time.
'They'll never forgive me I know they won't! she said to Tinling. 'Don't you mind, he said, 'you acted very wisely. And, after all, these raw young troops can never be depended on under fire, you know I mean, under arrows. Cecily drew herself up a little haughtily. 'I locked them in because I didn't want them to get hurt, she said, 'not because I thought they'd be afraid.
So General Tinling held his peace, and the western sky slowly changed from crocus to green, and from green to deep violet, and the evening star lighted its steady golden fire, the grasshoppers set up a louder chirp, a bat executed complicated figures overhead, and the boys unconsciously began to speak in whispers.
'That's different, he said; 'I mean, it's not the same tribe. 'No, these are Black Bogallalas, said Jack. 'What were the first ones, Tinling? 'I didn't ask them, said the General shortly. 'How many braves should you think Wah Na What's-his-name will bring? asked Guy. 'As many as came the other evening? How many did come the first time?
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