“Have it so if you like; but it’s in name only, and I’ll show you that I am not in deed. You talked about crying before the Prince, ‘God save King James!’ God save King George! There!”
He spoke out loudly now, but repented the next moment, for fear that he should have dared his companion to execute his threat.
“Coward!” cried Andrew. “The miserable German usurper who has banished your father!”
“You said that you knew I was not a coward.”
“Then I retract it. You are if you try to hang back now.”
“Call me what you like, I’ll have nothing to do with it. They don’t want boys.”
“They do—every one; and you must come and fight.”
“Indeed!”
“Yes, or be punished as a traitor.”
“Let them come and punish me, then,” said Frank hotly. “I wear a sword, and I know how to use it.”