He had collected from various sources, as his account book later showed, a sum of over five thousand dollars, which he must have had in gold and negotiable papers in his saddle-bags.

During his return home, he came down the deep trough road which ran in front of the Sheraton farms and ours.

He passed near to a certain clump of bushes at the roadside.

And there that happened which brought to a sudden end all the peace and comfort of our lives, and which made me old before my time.
I heard the horse Satan whinny at our lane gate, wildly, as though in fright; and even as I went out my heart stopped with sudden fear.

He had leaped the gate at the lower end of the lane.