Lord James handed his glasses to John with the remark: "Would you like to take a look there toward the east, Scott ?" John with the help of the glasses discerned the English batteries in action.

He saw the men working about them, the muzzles pointing upward, and then the flash.

Some of the guns were completely hidden in foliage, and he could detect their presence only by the heavy detonations coming from such points.

Yet, like many of the English soldiers about him, John's mind did not respond to so much battle.

He looked at the flashes, and he listened to the reports without emotion.