this war is very old, if it does come! We don't want to be mixed
up in that, Dick -- we scouts. If we think a man's doing anything
suspicious, we'll have to be very sure before we denounce him, or
else we won't be any use."

"It's better for a few people to be arrested by mistake than to
let a spy keep on spying, isn't it?"

"I suppose so, but we don't want to be like the shepherd's boy who
used to try to frighten people by calling 'Wolf! Wolf!' when there
wasn't any wolf. You know what happened to him. When a wolf
really did come no one believed him. Wo want to look before we
leap."

"I suppose you're right, Harry. Oh, I do hope we can really be of
some use! If I can't go to the war, I'd like to think I'd had
something to do -- that I'd helped when my country needed me!"

"If you feel like that you'll be able to help, all right," said
Harry. "I feel that way, too not that I want to fight. I
wouldn't want to do that for any country but my own. But I would
like to be able to know that I'd had something to do with all
that's going to be done."

"I think it's fine for you to be like that," said Dick. "I think
there isn't so much difference between us, after all, even if you
are American and I'm English. Well, here we are again. I'll see
you in the morning, I suppose?"

"Right oh! I'll come around for you early. Goodnight!"