78 Pages - The Black Vault

ifth &eam“A frif/ing sum of miseryNew added to the foot of they account. ”DRYDEN.“Jack Frost looked forth one still clear night,And he said, ‘Now I shall be out of sight;So over the valley and over the heightIn silence I’ll take my way ’.” GOULD.Again I faced the same taskfresh hopes, all that remainedattempts being 19 lessons.with a fresh mind andwith me of my formerHaving detailed the two patrols and the guard onWaschout Hill as already described, I spent some20 minutes--whilst the stores, etc., were being arranged--inwalking about to choose a position to holdin the light of my 19 lessons.I came to the conclusion that it was not any goodbeing near the top of a hill and yet not at the top. Iwould make my post on the top of Waschout Hill,where I could not be overlooked from any placewithin rifle range, and where I should, I believed,have “command.” I was not quite certain what “command”meant, but I knew it was important--it says soI\JL48,— -