You can use the Cragg Club, tennis courts, bars, libraries, squash rooms, conference halls, and card rooms for free, and you can also taste the food and drinks in the cafeteria for free.
The shooting practice range is also free to use, but the use of firearms and bullets requires additional charges. Otherwise, at the price of about one suler for a revolver bullet, 300 rounds of revolver bullets are enough for the annual fee of the Kragg Club for one year. (
Note 1)
Of course, if you want a shooting coach to teach you how to practice marksmanship, you will have to pay a fee. Of course, it is not expensive. In addition to the cost of Rawls’ bullet consumption, excluding the club’s commission, the coach can get about 1 pound each.
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 income for him.
What's more, Rawls' shooting coach left the club, so Rawls had to find a new shooting coach, which meant a steady stream of income, so Atwood welcomed him so enthusiastically.
Atwood led the way and turned around and asked:
“Are you going to practice with a rifle or a shotgun?”
"I'm here to practice my 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 get the revolver and bullets."
Members of the Cragg Club are generally younger, but they all have serious jobs. Their usual leisure activities include playing cards, squash and tennis, and then attending some salons and dances.
They rarely choose shooting, a strenuous and time-consuming activity, unless they wait until before autumn and winter, when the nobles and rich start hunting, and then some people will come to practice marksmanship in order to achieve good results in hunting.
Therefore, members of the club generally practice rifles and shotguns, and mainly use shotguns. This can make their poor shooting skills look better. Including Rawls, they mainly practiced shotguns before, so Atwood can
Surprised he chose to practice the revolver.
But he didn't care. Making money was the most important thing to him. No matter what Rawls practiced, he could receive money, and the charge for revolvers was higher than that for shotguns.
Atwood took Rawls into a small practice room. Revolver practice occupies a smaller area compared to shotgun practice. After all, shotgun practice generally involves moving targets.
"Please wait here for a while, I will go to Mr. Gaude to get the guns and ammunition."
Rawls handed him his badge. To get guns and ammunition, you need to register, and Atwood also needs to register his name. Otherwise, how can he collect money?
Mr. Gaude, whose full name is Wert Gaude, is the person in charge of the shooting range. He is a disabled man in his fifties. He lost his left arm due to the war more than 20 years ago.
"Let's get fifty rounds of ammunition first."
Atwood took the badge, nodded in agreement and left the training room.
Rawls looked at the manservant in the red vest and waved to him:
"Go get two cups of Marquis black tea."
"Okay, Mr. Adrian."
Soon, Atwood came over carrying a tray. On the tray were two revolvers, two boxes of revolver bullets, and a modern-style earmuff, which was Russell's invention.
"Have you ever practiced revolver before?"
"I've practiced several times."
"Okay, let's start with this revolver..."
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“Do you need to wear sound-isolating earmuffs to shoot?”
"No need." It's naturally impossible to cover your ears and shoot while in combat.
"I'll load the bullets for you."
Atwood said he was a shooting coach, but in fact he didn't teach much about skills. Shooting always depends on personal talent and experience. He mainly focused on serving Rolls, a big client.
"I don't have to do it myself." No one helped Rawls load bullets during the battle either.
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At two o'clock in the afternoon, Rawls walked out of the Cragg Club rubbing his sore arms.
He practiced for more than an hour in the morning, then rested for a while, practiced for another hour after lunch, and fired about 120 rounds of ammunition.
Of course, the results are gratifying. Five or six of the ten bullets on the ten-meter target can hit the target. Although most of them are in the second and third rings, it is already good.
According to Atwood, for ordinary people, this is an extremely good result. If Rawls's arm had not started to swell in the later stages, stably hitting the target would not be a problem.
After getting on Fitch's carriage, Rawls was going home to wait for his future butler.
When Rawls arrived at home, he found that there was almost nothing at home, so he had to send Fitch to buy some tea first, and later simply let him act as a servant temporarily.
…………
Mr. Norman is fifty-five years old, but he does not have many wrinkles on his face. He looks very energetic. He is wearing a morning coat and first arrives at Rawls' home.
The two parties briefly introduced each other, and Rawls first asked:
"Mr. Norman, according to my future plan, I want to develop in a political direction. Do you have any good suggestions?"
"Do you want to develop in Backlund?"
Rawls nodded and pointed out the window:
"Of course, this is Backlund, the political center of Loen, and everything I have is here."
Norman frowned. Although Backlund was the political center, there were too many powerful people and the political resources had been divided up.
"Can I take the liberty to ask you, how much assets do you have now?"
Rawls looked at Norman in surprise. This 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 assets, you should be able to get the right time if you wait for a while."
He probably knew Norman's plan, but this surprised Rawls even more:
"How to say?"
"You know, the Corn Bills are about to be repealed, and the price of land is bound to come down, and the two parties are bound to raise funds to attract more people, and then you can donate money to both parties and join them."
"I don't have that much money."
Rawls is also helpless. Even if he sells three properties and a holiday villa now, the money raised is only about 10,000 pounds at most, which is just a drop in the bucket for that group of people.
Norman hesitated for a moment, then continued:
"You can donate to some members of the New Party who make land rent as their income, and you will save a lot."
Most of the members of the New Party seek income from banking, coal, factories and other industries, and some rely on land rent to earn income, but very few.
"You should know my political leanings."
"Yes, but compared to the big aristocrats of the Conservative Party, the new party with a smaller gap is more suitable for you."