Harry and Dalton in fact were to stay overnight at the house, and, forgetful of the war, they sang one song after another as the evening waned.

At nine o'clock all the guests left save Harry and Dalton.
"You and Langdon will show them to their bedrooms," said Colonel Talbot.
"Take the candle.

The rest of us can sit here by the firelight." There was but a single candle, and it was already burning low, but Happy Tom and Arthur, shielding it from draughts, led the way to the second floor.
"Most of the houses were demolished by cannon shot and fire," said Langdon, "but we've a habitable room which we reserve for guests of high degree.

You will note here where a cannon shot, the result of plunging fire, came slantingly through the roof and passed out at the wall on the other side.

You need not get under that hole if it should rain or snow, and meanwhile it serves splendidly for ventilation.