(Note: In explanation of our conclusion, that we had seen one of the lights of the car as Gordon drove down through the trees, I can only give again the difficulty of distinguishing at night a small light comparatively close at hand from a large one some distance away.)
(Note: In explanation of our conclusion, that we had seen one of the lights of the car as Gordon drove down through the trees, I can only give again the difficulty of distinguishing at night a small light comparatively close at hand from a large one some distance away.)Halliday watched it, and then passed his revolver to me, first taking off the safety catch.
“Don’t fall over anything,” he warned me. “And don’t shoot until you see the whites of his eyes! I’m going over there, Skipper.”
He set off on a steady lope, headin
