"Cadet code!" Mr. Wayne repeated. "You tease each other now and then, I fancy?"
"Always!"
"And laugh at each other?"
"Without stint."
"Perhaps introduce each other occasionally?"
"Why, of course, sir!" Magnus answered.
"And probably the cadet code would permit you to pull a man out of the river, or tell him the barracks were ablaze? It is framed only against the important things, hey?"
"Don't you call it important to pull a man out of the river?" Magnus asked, with a laugh.
"Rather. Nothing like pulling him into the kingdom."
The clouds sailed silently by, river and hill darkening and brightening as the shadows fell and passed; the leaves rustled softly among the oak branches and stirred with a different music among the pines. Then from far down below sounded a drum—Magnus started up.