Mystery: Shadow of Order

Atwood nodded quickly and said:

"It's my pleasure."

In the Cragg Club, tennis courts, bars, libraries, squash rooms, conference halls, card rooms can be used for free, and food and drinks in the cafeteria can also be tasted free of charge.

The shooting range is also free to use, but the use of firearms and ammunition requires additional charges. Otherwise, 300 rounds of revolver bullets would be enough for the annual fee of the Cragg Club for a year at a price of about a sule of a revolver bullet. (Note 1)

Of course, if you want a shooting instructor to teach you how to practice marksmanship, there is a fee of course. Of course it's not expensive, plus Rawls's cost of consuming bullets, minus the club's rake, the coach can probably get 1 pound an hour.

Rawls' former shooting coach Gary's weekly salary is about 4 pounds, and Atwood should be about the same. 1 pound an hour is definitely a considerable amount of income for him.

What's more, Rolls' shooting coach left the club, so Rolls had to find a new shooting coach, which meant a steady stream of income, so Atwood would welcome him so enthusiastically.

Atwood led the way, turned around and asked:

"Are you going to practice a rifle or a shotgun?"

"I'm here to practice the revolver this time."

"Revolver?"

Atwood was stunned for a moment, looked at Rawls, made sure he was right, and then nodded quickly:

"Okay, I'll go get the revolver and bullets."

The members of the Cragg Club are generally relatively young, but they all have serious jobs. Their leisure activities are generally playing cards, squash and tennis, and then participating in some salons and dances.

They seldom choose shooting, which is a laborious and time-consuming activity. Only when the rich and aristocrats start hunting before autumn and winter will someone come to practice their marksmanship in order to achieve good results in hunting.

Therefore, the members of the club generally practice rifles and shotguns, and mainly focus on shotguns, which can make their poor shooting skills look better. Including Rawls, he mainly practiced shotguns before, so Atwood was surprised that he chose to practice revolvers.

But he didn't care. For him, making money was the most important thing. No matter what Rawls practiced, he could receive money, and the revolver was charged more than the shotgun.

Atwood took Rawls into a small practice room. Compared with shotgun practice, revolver practice occupies a smaller area. After all, shotgun practice is generally a moving target.

"Please wait here for a while, I'll go to Mr. Damon to get the guns and ammunition."

Rawls handed him his badge. He had to register to get guns and ammunition. Atwood also needed to register his name. Otherwise, how would he receive money?

Mr. Damon, whose full name is Werther Damon, is the head of the shooting range. He is a disabled man in his fifties. He lost his left arm because of the war more than 20 years ago.

"Get fifty bullets first."

Atwood took the badge, nodded in agreement, and left the training room.

Rawls looked at the servant in the red vest beside him and waved to him:

"Go get two cups of Marquis black tea."

"Okay, Mr. Adrian."

Soon, Atwood came over with a tray on which were two revolvers and two boxes of revolver bullets, as well as a rather modern earmuff, which was invented by Roselle.

"Have you practiced the revolver before?"

"I practiced a few times."

"Okay, let's start with this revolver..."

…

"Do you need to wear soundproof earmuffs to shoot?"

"No." Naturally, it is impossible to cover your ears and shoot during a battle.

"I'll load the bullet for you."

Atwood said he was a shooting coach, but in fact, he did not teach much skills. Shooting always depends on his personal talent and experience. He mainly served the big customer, Rawls.

"I don't have to do it myself." No one helped Rawls load the bullets during the battle.

……

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Rawls walked out of the Cragg Club rubbing his sore arm.

He practiced for more than an hour in the morning, then rested for a while, and practiced for another hour after lunch, firing about 120 bullets.

Of course, the results are gratifying. Five or six rounds of ten bullets in the ten-meter target can hit the target. Although most of them are in the second or third ring, they are already good.

According to Atwood, for the average person, this is an extremely good result. If it wasn't for Rawls's arm starting to swell in the later period, it would not be a problem to hit the target stably.

After getting into Fitch's carriage, Rawls is going home to wait for his future housekeeper.

When Rawls arrived at the house, he found that there was almost nothing at home, so he had to send Fitch to buy some tea first, and then let him temporarily serve as a servant.

……

Mr. Norman is fifty-five years old this year, but his face is not very wrinkled, he looks very energetic, wearing a morning dress, he first arrived at the Rawls house.

The two sides briefly introduced each other, and Rawls first asked:

"Mr. Norman, according to my future plan, I want to develop in the political direction. Do you have any good suggestions?"

"Are you going to develop in Backlund?"

Rawls nodded, UU reading www. uukanshu.com pointed out the window:

"Of course, this is Backlund, Ruen's political center, and everything I have is here."

Norman frowned. Although Backlund is the political center, there are too many powerful people, and political resources have almost been divided up.

"I can take the liberty to ask you, how much assets do you have now?"

Rawls looked at Norman in surprise. It was too direct.

Norman looked apologetic and waved his hand:

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just thinking that if you have enough liquidity or enough assets, you should be able to have the right time after waiting for a while."

He probably knew about Norman's plan, but this surprised Rawls even more:

"How to say?"

"You know, the Corn Act is about to be repealed, and the price of land is bound to come down, and there's bound to be funding between the two parties to attract more people, and then you can donate money to both parties to join them."

"I don't have that much money."

Rawls is also very helpless. Even if he has now sold three properties and holiday villas, the money raised will be around £10,000 at most, which is only a drop in the bucket for those people.

Norman hesitated for a moment, but continued:

"You can donate to some members of the New Party whose income is from land rent, which will save a lot."

Most of the members of the New Party seek income from industries such as banks, coal, factories, etc., and some rely on land rent to obtain income, but very few.

"You should know my political leanings."

"Yes, but compared to the big aristocracy of the Conservative Party, the new party, which is not so big in the gap, is more suitable for you."