Andy got down at the Misses Grant's gate, and was soon astonishing the simple ladies by a narrative of his encounter with the highwayman.
"Do you think he'll come here ?" asked Sophia, in alarm.

"If he should come when Andy was away----" "You could fire the gun yourself, Sophia." "I should be frightened to death." "Then he couldn't kill you afterward." "Just so," answered Sophia, a little bewildered.
"Were you shot, Andrew ?" she asked, a minute afterward.
"If I was, I didn't feel it," said Andy, jocosely.
Andy's heroic achievement made him still more valued by the Misses Grant, and they rejoiced in the handsome gift he had received from the colonel, and readily gave him permission to carry it to his mother after supper..