If we had any solid facts to work on, I would urge the baron to change his route, but I fear that he would not only scoff at our views that there may be danger, but might be angry at my taking the step of sending for a party of my retainers, without his being in any way consulted in the matter.
At any rate, I feel sure that he would refuse to change his route, without some very much stronger reason than we can give him." "Then we must let matters go on as they are, Philip.

It may be that really we have been alarming ourselves without sufficient cause.

If the worst comes to the worst, we can make a good fight for it." "It is certainly hard on you.

You have performed one brave action for us, at the risk of your life, and now you are thrust into another danger, perhaps even greater than the first, and this in a quarrel in which you have no concern whatever." Desmond laughed.
"Do you not see, Philip, that the adventure is good training for a soldier, and that, if I am on duty in command of a company, I shall be all the more useful an officer for having served a sort of apprenticeship in surprises, ambuscades, and alarms.

The journey has been vastly more interesting than it would have been under other circumstances.