But there was no more noise.
Then Oswald said—and nobody ever put it in the Golden Deed book, though they own that it was brave and noble of him—he said—
‘Perhaps it was only the wind blowing one of the doors to. I’ll go down and see, if you will, Dick.’
Dicky only said—
‘The wind doesn’t shoot bolts.’
‘A bolt from the blue,’ said Denny to himself, looking up at the sky. His father is a sub-editor. He had gone very red, and he was holding on to Alice’s hand. Suddenly he stood up quite straight and said—
‘I’m not afraid. I’ll go and see.’
THIS was afterwards put in the Golden Deed book. It ended in Oswald and Dicky and Denny going. Denny went first because he said he would rather—and Oswald understood this and let him. If Oswald had pushed first it would have been like Sir Lancelot r
