William smiled "there's no need for me to intrude. I simply mean to drop off some documents for him. And pleasure to male your aquantiance. There's no need to thank me. John is a fine soldier. He is highly regarded in his own regiment and quite frankly. It would be a waste of his talent to send him off to jail for something that is merely an admin error. 3 times mentioned in dispatches and the military cross. The last he recieved for recovering 5 lads wounded on his patrol by an ambush. He is exactly the man I want beside me in this up coming expedition"