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At this moment the robbers broke from the rocks and ran swiftly out into the open toward the Big Tree. "Ready, everybody ready!" whispered Mr. Conroyal. On came the robbers, until they were within seventy-five feet of the rocks behind which our friends were hiding. "Now!" yelled Mr. Conroyal, and leaped to his feet, and leveled his rifle. "Hands UP!" he commanded.
He shouted down: "We have orders to spare you, Gregg Haljan or you would have been killed long ago!" My answering shot hit his barrage with a shower of sparks, behind which he stood unmoved. Carter handed me another weapon. "Gregg, try this." I leveled the old explosive projector; Carter crouched beside me.
For a moment the mob, respecting, in spite of themselves, the calm heroism with which they were confronted, paused in their onset; but those in front were pushed on by those behind, and pikes were leveled and blows were aimed at both the king and the princess, whom they mistook for the queen. At first there were but one or two attendants at the king's side, but they were faithful and brave men.
They renewed their yells, the guard again ordered the Parrot out, but the latter, tearing open his blouse, cackled out: "No, I won't go; fire at me, guard. There's my heart shoot me right there." There was no help for it. The Rebel leveled his gun and fired. The charge struck the Parrot's lower jaw, and carried it completely away, leaving his tongue and the roof of his mouth exposed.
A Rebel Captain came running up, said to the guard, who was leaning on his gun, gazing curiously at Lloyd: "What in are you standing gaping there for? Why don't you shoot the Yankee son ?" and snatching the gun away from him, cocked and leveled it at Lloyd, but the boys near jerked the speaker down from the stump and saved his life. We became fearfully, wrought up.
I was in advance, followed by a sergeant carrying my battleflag. When I got within about a hundred and fifty yards of the enemy's line, which was immediately in front of the Court House, some of the Confederates leveled their pieces at us, and I again halted.
But, sir, I am here to defend my mother's rights and to protect her from insult! And I tell you plainly that you have affronted her for the very last time! One more word or look of insult leveled at Marah Rocke and neither your age, position nor this sacred roof shall protect you from personal chastisement at the hands of her son!"
As if the words were a signal, the crowd about them surged up suddenly, with the harsh scrape of many chair-legs and an odd, sibilant sound, caused by a multitude of quick-drawn breaths. Like a flash Buck pulled his gun and leveled it on the nearest greaser. "Get out of the way," he ordered, taking a step toward the outer door.
He added persuasively: "We want you to navigate us. Will you?" "No." "Will you help us, Captain Carter? Tell your cub, this Haljan, to yield." Carter roared, "Get back from there. There is no truce!" I shoved aside his leveled projector. "Wait a minute, Miko. Navigate where?" "That is our business. When you come out here, I will give you the course."
In the teaching profession, "equal pay" would not exclude the women; it would be far more likely to exclude the men. For, though the advocates of the principle would declare that their intention is that the salaries of women should be leveled up to those of men, it is more probable that the ultimate outcome would be a leveling down.
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