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And his bloodshot eyes it was Tuez-les-Moines questioned the doors, while his hand, trembling and shaking on the haft of his knife, bespoke his eagerness. "Where is he? Where is he, woman? Quick, or " "I shall not tell you," she answered. "You lie," he cried, grinning like a dog. "You will tell us! Or we will kill you too! Where is he? Where is he?"
When he first saw what Wylie was doing, obstupuit, he was merely benumbed; but, as his mind realized the fiendish nature of the act, and its tremendous consequences, his hair actually bristled, and for a few minutes at least he could not utter a word. In that interval of stupor, matters took another turn. The auger went in up to the haft.
So Sir Bedevere departed with the sword, and on the way he looked at the sword, and saw how noble was the blade and how shining, and how the pommel and haft were full of precious stones. 'If I throw this sword into the water, said Sir Bedevere to himself, 'how great a sin 'twould be to waste so noble a weapon. Therefore he hid it in the branches of the thorn and returned to the king.
"Now," I continued, in a low voice, intended only for his ear, "when I say `Strike', thrust at me not too quickly, but just quick enough to make the blow look real. Strike!" Prompt at the word, the man struck, exactly as I had told him to do; and without the least difficulty I parried the blow, shearing the head of the spear from its haft, and leaving the latter in the astonished savage's hand.
Jackson, mean time, produced a pocket-book; and, after deliberately sharpening the point of a pencil, began to write on a blank leaf. While he was thus occupied, Thames, prompted by an unaccountable feeling of curiosity, took up the penknife which the other had just used, and examined the haft. What he there noticed occasioned a marked change in his demeanour.
Nor could they see the cruel snarl of her lips as her fingers closed tightly about the haft of the huge butcher-knife, whose point was sharp and whose blade was keen. Nor did they hear the noiseless tread with which the girl again approached the door, swung wider now to admit the passage of her tense, lithe body.
Within half an hour, Captain Arnutt, Dick Vaughan, Jan, and one town constable were alone in the little littered room of the tragedy, where the dead lay practically as they had been discovered. Two incriminating articles only had been found: a sheath-knife with a carved haft, and a black soft felt hat.
"Because he has killed Giuseppe," she answered simply. "Giuseppe? He has slain Giuseppe?" The simultaneous cry went up in a wail, and by impulse the hand of each one moved to his knife. "Your pardon, principessa " began one black-avised bandit, dropping the haft of his knife and feeling for the gun at his back. She waived him aside and turned to me.
Still it was not the intent men or the stately clustering pines that she recalled most clearly; it was the dominant central figure, standing almost statuesque, with head tilted slightly backward, and both hands clenched on the big ax haft. "The man they were tormenting must have done something to vex them. They really are not quarrelsome," she said.
"It's a Bible name," said Silas, old ideas recurring. "Then I've no call to speak again' it," said Dolly, rather startled by Silas's knowledge on this head; "but you see I'm no scholard, and I'm slow at catching the words. My husband says I'm allays like as if I was putting the haft for the handle that's what he says for he's very sharp, God help him.
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