A boy's battle

By Dromgoole Will Allen

... "What if I have killed poor uncle Jack ? What if I have killed uncle Jack ? " He was only a boy, and totally ignorant of the law. He might be hung, for all he knew. It was an accident, to be sure. But how was he to prove that, since there had been no witnesses to the deed ? No witness ? Then why need he tell, since nobody knew ? Nobody need ever know unless he chose to tell it; nobody could ever know, - or, if they could or did, they would not understand that it was an accident, - that he did not mean to shoot him. " Nobody," said he, "but just uncle Jack himself; he'll understand, but the law never would." So confident was he that the victim was uncle Jack that he had begun to think of him as dead, and therefore understanding how it was that he had killed him. The next moment, just ahead of him he saw a figure emerge from the shadow along the roadside into the open clearing. In the uncertain light he was unable at first to make out who it was; but there was something familiar in the short, heavy figure that limped a little and carried a gun slung across his shoulder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1709610468
• ISBN13: 9781709610462
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"