The Strategy of Nunez.
The Strategy of Nunez.The little party left the train at South Norwalk; it was shortly after nine o’clock when they engaged a carry-all from a liveryman and began the journey along the road which the youth from Saginaw indicated.
“Rather a dark night,” commented Webster.
“Like ink,” replied Philip Austin.
A lamp hung at each side of the trap, and they projected their struggling rays for a very short space ahead; the horses, with ears c****d, jogged briskly along. The road, when they had left the town well behind, grew lonely and still.
The lines of rail fencing went wavering by in the lamp-light; trees by the wayside seemed vast and shadowy and full of strange murmurings; now and then, from far across the fields, they caught the flicker of a light in a farmhouse
