It was his father who brought me upon him, and though I effected his capture eight years ago I don't suppose he cares which of us he killed.

However, the point is not what he aimed at, but whether it was he, and that I take there is no doubt about.

He missed me this time, but his next shot may be more successful, At any rate, I think that it is high time that I told you the story." And, beginning with the arrival of Colonel Thorndyke at his place, he repeated the conversation that he had had with him.

Several times in the early portion of his narrative he was interrupted by exclamations of surprise from his son.
"Then Millicent is really my uncle's heiress!" exclaimed Mark, when he heard the request the Colonel had made of the Squire.
"That is so, Mark.

She does not know it herself, and it was my brother's urgent wish that she should not know it until she came of age or until she married.