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It is a dim, vague recollection; I am sure I felled Sanchez with one blow of my pistol-butt, stretching him apparently lifeless at my feet; in some way that deadly cleaver came into my hands and I trod on his body, swinging the sharp blade with all my might into those scowling faces.
'Take that, said Fergus, striking the boy upon the head with the heavy pistol-butt with his whole force 'take that for acting without orders, and lying to disguise it. Callum received the blow without appearing to flinch from it, and fell without sign of life. 'Stand still, upon your lives! said Fergus to the rest of the clan; 'I blow out the brains of the first man who interferes between Mr.
Every sense acute, he waited, hand clutching the pistol-butt, finger on trigger. "Ready there, Beatrice!" cried he. "Something's started at last! Maybe it's our turn now. Here, get behind me but be ready to shoot when I tell you! Steady now, steady for the attack!" Tense as coiled springs they waited. And all at once a bar slid, creaking.
But I did not now know this, and I tried to fasten my mind upon that encounter in the drift by the guard-house, which was my last recollection. Much of it curiously eluded my mental grasp for a time; then all at once it came to me. "Do you know, Teunis," I said, "that I believe it was Philip Cross who broke my head with his pistol-butt?" "Nonsense!" "Yes, it surely was and he knew me, too!"
"That's all right, you reaching for your gun!" he defied the Master. "Go ahead, shoot! I'm rich already. My pockets are half full. Shoot, damn you, shoot!" The Master laughed oddly, and let his hand fall from the pistol-butt. "This," said he quite calmly, "is insanity." "Ha! Insanity, it is? Well then, let me be insane, can't you? It's a good way to die. And I've lived, anyhow. We've all lived.
He sprang up, knife in hand, and rushed upon him a second time, only to be floored again, and the knife sent spinning. Willett seized it, and was standing over him, panting a bit, when felled by a crashing blow with a pistol-butt at the base of the skull.
"Oh, Darby!" cried a voice, "I've got him this way quick oh, Darb " My fist drove into his ribs; I struggled up under a rain of blows, and we struck and swayed and staggered and struck trampling the groaning wretch who lay dying in the ditch. And before me was the pale oval of a face, and I smote it twice with my pistol-butt, and it was gone, and I was running along the road.
Nothing but Harkins's gigantic strength saved him, that day, from immediate death. His long arms tackled three or four men at once, and all went down in a bunch. Others fell on top, as in a college cane-rush. There had been swift shooting, hitherto, but now it was mostly knife and pistol-butt.
"But presently along comes a cloaked figure, with horses, and he lifts m'sieu' the Englishman upon one, and away they ride like the devil towards St. Charles River and Beauport. Gabord was taken to the hospital, and he swore that Englishman would not have got away if stranger had not fetched him a crack with a pistol-butt which sent him dumb and dizzy.
Boyle leaned against the torrent of abuse and swallowed it, his face losing its fiery hue, blanching and fading as if every word fell on his senses like the blow of a whip to the back. The Governor's son watched every muscle of Shanklin's face as if to read the gambler's intention in his eye, while his hand, stiff-set and clawlike, hovered within three inches of his pistol-butt.