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"A bandit, my excellent friend," was his answer, "but not a common one; no ordinary footpad could strip the noble Servius Flaccus without a harder struggle." Servius burst into lamentations. "My box of unguents! My precious rings! My money-bag! You are not leaving me one valuable! Have you sunk as low as this?"
He looked at Lucia. "Yet 'e give nozzing to ze wife. H'm! Señora, tell me.... Does a widow in your country get any of 'er 'usband's money when 'e dies?" Pell, listening intently, drew a sharp breath. He caught the significance of the question. His lips contracted. This damned bandit was capable of anything. Lopez paid no attention to him. He asked for enlightenment from Hardy.
"And with a boldness of which no bandit before him ever gave an example." "Then the police have vainly tried to lay hands on him?" "Why, you see, he has a good understanding with the shepherds in the plains, the fishermen of the Tiber, and the smugglers of the coast.
As for Percival, if that young man was not literally and actually a bandit, at least he had all the instincts of one. In any case, he was a "bum." Whenever Mr. Landover was at a loss for a word to express contumely for his fellow-man, and he was seldom at a loss, he called him a "bum."
The muscles of his jaw hardened. "They'd better hope they don't find me, some of 'em," he bragged. "So had you," she said significantly. He took her meaning instantly. The temper of Bear Cat was on edge for a lynching. "Did they die, either o' those fellows I shot?" the bandit demanded. "Not yet." "Fools, the pair of 'em.
Now this was an awkward question for me to answer. In the first place, the man might or might not be trustworthy; and in the second, the only name I knew was that of the bandit chief. However, I concluded the venture was worth making, and said, "Men call the owner of the key Raymon Sorillo." "Ah!" exclaimed the Indian, with a sigh of satisfaction, "he is a great chief.
"Yet what difference does it make, Gato. As soon as Don Luis is through with the Americanos he will restore you to your old position." "It is because the Americanos treated me with such contempt," retorted Pedro. "No man sneers at me and lives." "You unhung bandit!" muttered Tom under his breath.
It is our duty, in conformity with other Christian Balkan states, to do everything in our power to insure proper conditions for a real and permanent peace in the Balkans." The first raid into Turkish territory was made by the Bulgarian bandit Sandansky, who in 1902 had kidnapped Miss Ellen M. Stone, an American missionary, and held her for a ransom of $65,000 to procure funds for his campaign.
The bandit then caused the owners of the hut to quit it, and when he saw them out of danger he took his carabine and began firing upon the soldiers, who on their side returned the attack on the hut. When it was riddled with balls, and the bandit had ceased to defend himself, a soldier approached the hut and set fire to it, so great was the fear they entertained of then finding him alive.
"Oh, yes " Fairchild was swimming in deep water now. "I got a good look at him. He he took that road off to the left." It was the opposite one to which the hurrying fugitive in whipcord had taken. There was doubt in the interrogator's eyes. "Sure of that?" he queried. "I 'm the sheriff of Arapahoe County. That's an auto bandit ahead of us. We " "Well, I would n't swear to it.
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