Oswald was Lieutenant.

Oswald was quite fair, because he let H.O.call himself Captain; but Oswald is the eldest next to Dora, after all.
Our plan was this.

We were all to go up on to the Heath.

Our house is in the Lewisham Road, but it's quite close to the Heath if you cut up the short way opposite the confectioner's, past the nursery gardens and the cottage hospital, and turn to the left again and afterwards to the right.

You come out then at the top of the hill, where the big guns are with the iron fence round them, and where the bands play on Thursday evenings in the summer.
We were to lurk in ambush there, and waylay an unwary traveller.