And he opened his eyes a bit, and said, "Have you got into Cosy Cottage yet, you and Baby?" So Tiny cheered up and answered, "Yes, Sir. We settled in last night, as jolly as can be. Baby sings all the time she's so happy." Then the Colonel nodded to and fro, murmuring, "Ah, my poor boy! my poor Baby!--bad, bad, bad." Then he wiped his eyes, and picked up a blue writing that was lying on the bed, and handed it Tiny, saying, "It's all in there, my poor boy--all in there. Wead it yourself. I wouldn't have it otherwise for the world. Still it's wather a shock--that's all: especially for you and my little Marwy." Then Tiny took the writing to the dusty sunbeam that lit the loft through a crack in the thatch. And the writing was in a great blob hand that Tiny knew well; and it went, _Move to-day, u and the Redgement, and any more u like, to another Fort if u can find one. Why? Because I order you--I am_ The Right Honorary St Jack-Assquire, Own blud brudder to George, Commander-in-Chief at the Castle now, And hope to be Royal King one day. _P.S.--I send u a midjut of me in my khaki with what Willie give me on my right turn. I send it u free, because to show I've got no grudge against u.... Shew it round. It shud encurudge recruutin. Send me some reports on this soon as u know._ Then as Tiny read it through for the second time, the Colonel said from the bed, "Wather wude--ain't it'?" And he sniffed a bit. "But there! dear old St Jacky! I can't help loving the chap--he is so very stwaight." All the same his mouth began to go, and he went on rather gaspy, "I don't mind for myself. It's my little Marwy. Her mother's buried here. I think it will bweak her h-h-heart." And one tear went. "And it means a move for you too, poor fellow. Cosy Cottage goes with the Fort, you know." And he dabbed and went on, "I wonder what it all means." Then Tiny, who was rather white, answered, "It means spite, Sir," and he told the Colonel about the Commander-in-Chief's great ambition, and his attempt on Goliath by night, and his toe, and so on etc.: for they had not told the Colonel before, because they always kept from him anything that would give him pain. And when he heard that, he said, "I'm disappointed in St Jack--vewy disappointed. I thought he was a gweat man," for he always took everybody at their own opinion of themselves, which was very sweet and simple of him. But Tiny tore the writing into little bits, and put them on the fire; so that it was like hell for the bits. And he said to himself out loud, "Debbel-debbel-damb-damb," which he knew quite well he shouldn't. Then he ran across the floor pitter-pat; and down the ladder to the bottom, bump; and across the square patter-pit; screaming, "I don't care! I will say!--Debbel-debbel-damb-damb." 30 So Tiny ran out of the Fort to tell Baby they must move out of Cosy Cottage at once, quickly this minute.