You should also practice sometimes at night, setting up some object at a distance so that you can just make out its outline, and taking a dozen shots at it.

I know it is very difficult when you cannot see your own pistol, but you can soon learn to trust to your arm to come up to the right height and in the right direction.

Of course you must wait until morning to find out where your bullet has gone." Two days after they had reached town the Squire received a letter from Mrs.Cunningham.
"DEAR MR.

THORNDYKE: "Knapp has been up this morning to tell me that a stranger dismounted yesterday at the alehouse, and while his horse was being fed he asked a few questions.

Among others, he wished to be told if you were at home, saying that he had known you some fifteen years ago, when you lived near Hastings, and should like to have a talk with you again.