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It was three weeks later that David called a Council of War in the garden. Nurse had departed with her boxes. Grandfather had engaged a "strict governess."
The Council of War had met in the old pigsty, where all really secret Councils took place. This being a really important Council, the refreshments consisted of peaches and the best hothouse grapes -- stolen, of course, from the hothouse, though the boys knew well enough the old gardener would get into trouble with his master, and as likely as not one of the under-gardeners would get the blame.