He was a very pleasant and companionable person.

On the premises there was what had once been a bowling-alley.

It was a single alley, and it was estimated that it had been out of repair for sixty years--but not the balls, the balls were in good condition; there were forty-one of them, and they ranged in size from a grapefruit up to a lignum-vitae sphere that you could hardly lift.

Higgins and I played on that alley day after day.

At first, one of us located himself at the bottom end to set up the pins in case anything should happen to them, but nothing happened.