If they search the house for arms or stragglers, make no resistance.

It's best." "Yes, yes, I know," his wife cried out, "but you, dear, _you_! Why are you here?
Why aren't you with your company ?" Cary looked away for a moment across the fields and down the slope towards the shimmering river.

They were very beautiful--he wondered why he had not fully realized all that wife and child and home meant to him when he volunteered recently for a certain hazardous duty.

He knew, too, how quickly his dear wife would know the full extent of the peril with which he felt himself surrounded.

And so his reply was short and seemingly gruff, as many another man's has been under too heavy circumstances.
"Scouting duty.