Chasing the Heiress
“He didn’t explain the measures to Lucy, and she didn’t ask, grown used—he assumed—to not knowing why or how or when from her years in the camps.
He chose as his watch station the weapons room at the end of the second floor. It gave him full vistas of the back and side of the house.
Overlooking the west yard where the kitchen garden still grew under the keeper’s care, he could look through one large window and a smaller round one. Overlooking the back yard into the wilderness, he could watch fro...m two large windows or from the four petal-shaped ones. With leaded glass, each of the four petals opened individually to allow a breeze through—or a gun for protection. At each set of windows, he had set up a stool to lean against and a pair of loaded pistols on a short table.
* * * When Lucy arrived with tea, the weapons room was empty, and she took the occasion to investigate.
The room stored the guns and other sporting equipment a group of hunters might need for a week’s retreat.MoreLess
He chose as his watch station the weapons room at the end of the second floor. It gave him full vistas of the back and side of the house.
Overlooking the west yard where the kitchen garden still grew under the keeper’s care, he could look through one large window and a smaller round one. Overlooking the back yard into the wilderness, he could watch fro...m two large windows or from the four petal-shaped ones. With leaded glass, each of the four petals opened individually to allow a breeze through—or a gun for protection. At each set of windows, he had set up a stool to lean against and a pair of loaded pistols on a short table.
* * * When Lucy arrived with tea, the weapons room was empty, and she took the occasion to investigate.
The room stored the guns and other sporting equipment a group of hunters might need for a week’s retreat.MoreLess
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