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Warde added a note or two to the chorus. "This is an opportunity for Scaife," he told John. "He may distinguish himself very greatly, and the discipline of the camp will transmute the bad metal into gold. War is an alchemist." Upon the 11th of October war was declared. After that, Desmond became as one possessed.
By the mast, for the vessel had but one, stood Gilbert Warde, watching all that was done, with the profoundly ignorant interest which landsmen always show in nautical matters. It seemed very slow to him, and he wondered why the man with the long beard, far up the beach, did not let go, so that the boat might launch herself.
They reached the top, captured the guns, drove down the enemy, and returned to the highest point to find their leader shot through the heart, and dead, and smiling at death. Of all the men who passed through that blizzard of bullets he was the youngest by two years. Warde told John that the Head Master would preach upon the last Sunday evening of the term, with special reference to Harry Desmond.
Judge Graney's eyes glowed. He sat erect and looked hard at the sheriff. "Who is Sanderson?" he asked. "That's the fellow who bossed the trail herd." The judge smiled oddly. "There were three thousand head of cattle?" Warde straightened. "How in hell do you know?" he demanded. "Banker Maison paid for them," he said gently.
That nothing should be wanting to that trebly-fortunate youth, he had helped to win the Public Schools' Racquets Championship. The Manor was now the crack house cock-house at racquets and football, certain to be cock-house at cricket. And Scaife got most of the credit, not Warde, who smiled more than ever, and talked continually of Balliol Scholarships. He never bragged of victories past.
At the moment John, quite unconsciously, looked as if he were glorying in what he had done. Warde could have struck his clean, clear face, unblushingly meeting his furious glance. In disgust, he turned his back and walked to the window. John felt rather than saw that his tutor was profoundly moved. When he turned, two tears were trickling down his cheeks. The sight of them nearly undid John.
"No, but he tried to kill me. Didn't I tell you?" "No, you never told us," Warde said, gently. "Tell us now." "It was at Camp Merritt." "What do you mean? When?" Blythe closed his eyes and lay for a few moments, silent. It seemed as if he slept. The boys looked at each other, puzzled. The invalid opened his eyes and smiled. "Did you pick up all the sticks?" he asked. "Yes, we did," Warde said.
One might easily have imagined those dark, spectral structures to be tenanted by the ghosts of dead soldiers. "Why didn't you mention Quebec?" Roy asked. "Why didn't you ask him if he had been there? That was the place named in the notice." "That isn't what I was thinking about," Warde said. "I was reading in the old scout handbook how you can tell where people come from by their talk.
Listening to that insistent sound I was reminded of Warde Fowler's words about the sweet season which brings new life and hope to men, and how a seal and sanction is put on it by that same small bird's clear resonant voice. I endeavoured to recall the passage, saying to myself that in order to enter fully into the feeling expressed it is sometimes essential to know an author's exact words.
"How far is Woodcliff?" he asked, out of breath, and as if caught by a sudden idea. "'Bout six or seven miles," Roy said. "We don't know just exactly where we're going except that it's somewhere around Woodcliff Lake." "I might make my last test," Warde panted. "I just happened to think of it." He looked rather appealingly at Roy who was his patrol leader.
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