"A real spy wouldn't let you find it out very easily. I can
see one thing and that is a whole lot of perfectly harmless people are
going to be arrested as spies before this war is very old, if it does come!
We don't want to be mixed up in that, Dick--we scouts. If we think a man's
doing anything suspicious, we'll have to be very sure before we denounce
him, or else we won't be any use."
"It's better for a few people to be arrested by mistake than to let a spy
keep on spying, isn't it?"
"I suppose so, but we don't want to be like the shepherd's boy who used to
try to frighten people by calling 'Wolf! Wolf!' when there wasn't any wolf.
You know what happened to him. When a wolf really did come no one believed
him. We want to look before we leap."
"I suppose you're right, Harry. Oh, I do hope we can really be of some use!
If I can't go to the war, I'd like to think I'd had something to do--that
I'd helped when my country needed me!"
"If you feel like that you'll be able to help, all right," said Harry. "I
feel that way, too--not that I want to fight. I wouldn't want to do that
for any country but my own. But I would like to be able to know that I'd
had something to do with all that's going to be done."
"I think it's fine for you to be like that," said Dick. "I think there
isn't so much difference between us, after all, even if you are American
and I'm English.
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