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They were enjoying life placidly in, it may have been, Brest I forget when one night the gendarmes suddenly broke into their room, raided it, turned it bottomside up, handcuffed the two arch-criminals wrist to wrist, and said "Come with us." Neither The Zulu nor The Young Pole had the ghost of an idea what all this meant or where they were going. They had no choice but to obey, and obey they did.
"Those vessels must be some distance away, and before they came up we would be down here, handcuffed, and in disgrace with the captain. If we treat him right, we may win him over and finish the Baxters' game." Sitting in the darkness they took their time about eating the rice pudding, and Dick placed the water where it could be found when wanted.
An instant later the constable entered, followed by two smart-looking men, who had between them a third man, securely handcuffed. The prisoner was a very handsome, intelligent-looking young man, except for a pair of restless, over-bright eyes. "There's a difference of opinion 'bout who the prisoner belongs to," said the constable, addressing the squire; "and we agreed to leave the matter to you.
I've got a game leg, so that I can neither run nor fight, but I hope you'll listen to me. The Wagners can't get away they're locked up, with a deputy standing over them with a gun; and on top of that they're handcuffed. They're as helpless, boys, as two trapped coyotes." He looked down over the crowd, which shifted uneasily; no one spoke. "That's what struck me most," he continued.
Francis Heath was led into the awful pitfalls of cross-examination. Anyone may forget and recall facts later, but to state facts that may be used as evidence is to stand handcuffed before inexorable justice, and Mrs. Wilder had left her hands free. "Is anything the matter?" Draycott jerked out the question as he got up to leave the room. "You seem rather silent."
From the up-town hotels he drove in the light of the gas-lamps to the jail where the deputy marshal, with his prisoner securely handcuffed, took his seat and wrapped the robes about them both. Then at the down-town hotels they took on other passengers. The Fuller House was the last call of all. "Haven't you a back-seat?" The passenger partly spoke and partly coughed out his inquiry.
Gilbert Glossin, Esq., now Laird of Ellangowan, and justice of the peace, saw an opportunity of ingratiating himself with the country gentry, and exerted himself to discover the person by whom young Charles Hazlewood had been wounded. So it was with great pleasure he heard his servants announce that MacGuffog, the thief-taker, had a man waiting his honour, handcuffed and fettered.
Ned was at the door, Captain Martin was out in the corridor, and Frank, Jack and Jimmie were talking together in a corner. Handcuffed as he was, the Count leaped to the window and shot down to the hard pavement below. There was a shrill cry as his body hurtled through the air, then a crash. Below passersby drew away from what lay in a bloody heap on the pavement.
For the Corporal goes on to say, "We struggled." This is terse, but it involved much more than was said, as will later appear. "Finally," proceeds the Corporal, "I got him handcuffed behind and put him inside. His head being in bad shape I had to engage the services of a doctor who dressed his wound and pronounced it as nothing serious.
"I can whip Montague," said Perry. "Holliday I'm not so sure of. But Montague I can whip, the best day he ever stood in shoes." It maddened Devereau again. Just when he was beginning to congratulate himself that his work was good. "You can't lick him," he choked. "You couldn't lick him even if he was handcuffed and shackled to a ball and chain." He tossed aloft his arms. "Champion! You, champion!
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