I don't want to influence you, at all." In ten minutes, two of the lads came out.
"We have chosen Andre Favras and Pierre Landrin." "I think that you have done very wisely," Leigh said.

"Those are the two whom I, myself, should have selected." He had, indeed, noticed them as the two most intelligent of the party.

They had been his first recruits, and it was in no small degree owing to their influence that the others had joined him.

He returned to the shed.
"I approve of your choice, lads," he said.

"No doubt Andre and Pierre will make very good sub-officers.