two or three hours we whiled away in playing “Hearts.”  Finally all of King’s folks retired to sleep and King was free to go - elsewhere, which was Richards.
     We were confident of success.  The night was dark and a great fog bank and settled down early in the evening making everything obscure.  The first time, a week or so before, that they had tried, Bill + King went and procured three gallon without being detected!  The following attempts were made with snow on the ground and the ground frozen, which made it easy to both see + hear anyone.  But tonight we considered an ideal night; but we overlook one thing: there was no wind - sounds