When it was over Innes came to me.
"You win."
"I think I do. What do you make your total?"
He told me. I told him that I made mine forty-seven more.
"I did not know that you were quite so many as that. But I knew that you were in front. The birds have broken on your gun in a crowd."
I owned that was so.
"I know that the luck has been mine. Of course, as a shot I am not to be compared to you. It was like my cheek to back myself. But, somehow, I seemed to know, in advance, that I should have the luck."
"It has not, by any means, been all luck. You're a good shot, Mr. Townsend."
Archie came slouching up. He had lost his temper--as he was wont to do when he had been making an ass of himself.
"Did you ever see anything like my shooting? I can't hit a haystack."