Then they found a balk of timber floating in a pool which was commanded by the seaward slope of Fort Keeling, and they sat down together before this new target.
'Next holidays,' said Dick, as the now thoroughly fouled revolver kicked wildly in his hand, 'we'll get another pistol,--central fire,--that will carry farther.' 'There won't b any next holidays for me,' said Maisie.

'I'm going away.' 'Where to ?' 'I don't know.

My lawyers have written to Mrs.Jennett, and I've got to be educated somewhere,--in France, perhaps,--I don't know where; but I shall be glad to go away.' 'I shan't like it a bit.

I suppose I shall be left.

Look here, Maisie, is it really true you're going?
Then these holidays will be the last I shall see anything of you; and I go back to school next week.