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Repetto reclined, than, with a suddenness which caused them to leap into the air, there sounded from the darkness down the road the crack-crack-crack of a revolver. Instantly from the opposite direction came other shots. Three bullets flicked grooves in the roadway almost at Billy's feet. The Kid gave a sudden howl.
But I ain't goin' to up anchor fer Chatham. She may hold." The wind, which had hauled round, rose at sundown and blew steadily. There was not enough sea, though, to disturb even a dory's tackle, but the Carrie Pitman was a law unto herself. At the end of the boys' watch they heard the crack-crack-crack of a huge muzzle-loading revolver aboard her. "Glory, glory, hallelujah!" sung Dan.
They made no noise gliding down the steep snow bank upon their long shoes, and then out upon the ice of the lake. "Fire!" exclaimed Stark at the right moment; and as one man the Rangers halted, and each picked his man. Crack-crack-crack! Literally each bullet told. Twelve dusky savages bounded into the air, and fell dead upon the blood-stained snow. Crack-crack-crack!
Boxes and sacks were piled near the wharf, and from over behind the hills, with startling nearness, came the nervous Crack... crack... crack-crack-crack! of rifle and machine-gun fire.
Repetto reclined, than, with a suddenness which caused them to leap into the air, there sounded from the darkness down the road the crack-crack-crack of a revolver. Instantly from the opposite direction came other shots. Three bullets cut grooves in the roadway almost at John's feet. The Kid gave a sudden howl.
He would have pushed his way in, for all I could say, so I slammed the door in his face." "Very right, Perkins." "But now, sir, he is making such a din that all the folk are at the windows. There is a crowd gathering in the street, sir." From below came the crack-crack-crack of the knocker, ever rising in insistence, with a chorus of laughter and encouraging comments from the spectators.
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