'"Honour and salt-beef—campaigners' fare!' as Nelson used to say in
Corsica….
"And while you're at that, I'll get on with my story."
II
He went to the gable-end and took down a tarpaulin bag hanging on a staple.
"Kit, that was a great haul you made."
He took a packet from the bag.
"What d'you think this contains?" stripping the india-rubber from it.
There crept into his eyes again that steely look.
"It contains," he continued in the still voice of the man so moved that he dare hardly trust himself, "a list of all those gentlemen of Kent and Sussex who are à nous, as the paper says."
The boy dropped his knife.