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32 THE king's yard
deeds that made it no idle boast for Englishmen to
sing "Britannia Rules the Waves." The captain
was a poor man, without a friend at Court, grievously
wounded, and a widower with a young daughter—
this is how the end of the war left him, and it never
occurred to Bagshott for one moment, even when the
situation puzzled him most, that there was any human
remedy for his troubles, or that his country owed him
anything but such prize money and pay
as in his last
commission had become his due. But the Port
Admiral had by chance come across him in the new
hospital at Haslar, and the great man remembered
that Bagshott had once saved his life, and so, very
much to the old fellow's astonishment, he found
himself appointed
Governor of Portchester.
lived within the castle in a little
Captain Bagshott
modern cottage erected close to the church, which
stands upon the site of the Sacellum, towards the
eastern side of the grounds. This cottage was the
Governor's official quarters, and the place
was so
deftly hidden by thick trees and clinging ivy
in no wise seemed obtrusive.
that it
When the sentry saw the arrival of the Ferrefs
boat, and passed the word along, an orderly appeared
at the garden gate of the Governor's house, and
solemnly reported : " Boat coming alongside, sir."
This was a regulation laid down by Captain