Why, in Heaven's name, did you not consult me ?" "Because it was wiser not to," I said stoutly.

"Half my recruits are old soldiers of Bacon.

If the trouble blows past, they go back to their steadings and nothing more is heard of it.

If trouble comes, who are such natural defenders of the dominion as the frontier dwellers?
All I have done is to give them the sinews of war.

But if Governor Nicholson had taken up the business, and it were known that he had leaned on old rebels, what would the Council say?
What would have been the view of my lord Howard and the wiseacres in London ?" He said nothing, but knit his brows.