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`` Oh , I 've patronized every shooting gallery that has come to the village for the last eighteen years , I should think , '' was the answer . `` But , do you know , I feel most awfully remorseful about that poor fellow . He will be lame for a long time . '' In the kitchen sat Manuel , the stable-boy , his leg bandaged and resting on a chair ; for the midnight visitor on both occasions had been no other . He confessed to the first performance quite readily , and declared that this second had been at the instigation of Sinkum Fung , who promised always to get the reward for stolen goods , and give him half . Mr. Orban was not sorry to get hold of some definite reason for turning Sinkum Fung out of the place . He had long suspected him to be a cheat , and he wanted an Englishman in the store .