"I am glad to be back, now I am here, though I dare say I should not have come home for another ten years if it had not been for this rascally bullet.

Where is your boy ?" "He is away at school." "Well, I think I will go up to bed at once, if you don't mind, John.

I shall be fitter to talk in the morning." The next day, indeed, Colonel Thorndyke was materially better.

His voice was stronger and more cheery, and when he came down after breakfast he took his seat in an easy chair instead of on the sofa.
"Now, brother," he said, "we will have a cozy chat.

There are several things I want done, but the chief of these is that when I am gone you should go down to Reigate, as I wanted you to do ten years ago.