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Excerpt from The GunroomBut it was by no means dead. Lynwood had decided that, if he was subjected to it, the system should not break him. After all, its greatest violence was unlikely to last more than a year. In his second year he would be partly exempt from it, in his third, he would be in a position to enforce it, if he wished, upon others.The cab drew up at the hotel door. As he stood on the pavement fumbling for money he looked out acros...

Excerpt from The Gunroom Late on an afternoon in September a boy, wearing a naval mackintosh and a felt hat, came out of Torquay railway-station and hailed a cab. His figure, his voice, and his manner, which was nervous and a little self-conscious, suggested that his age was about eighteen. He took a handful of change out of his pocket, and, when he had selected from it, with momentary hesitation, a sixpence to give the porter who had brought...