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Nothing less than Parker's Lively Lumbago Pills. Enormous property! You know it; all the world knows it. Every second man, at least, on this globe of ours has tried it. "Why!" I cried, "they missed an immense fortune." "Yes," he mumbled, "by the price of a revolver-shot." He told me also that eventually Cloete returned to the States, passenger in a cargo-boat from Albert Dock.
At Rijeka we waited in an inn for the carriage, which we had ordered by telegraph from Cetinje to take us back to Podgorica, and were startled to hear a revolver-shot fired in the village. Everyone was running excitedly to a certain small "dugan," or shop, and thither we also directed our steps and found a bleeding Montenegrin standing over a prostrate and insensible Turk.
Five young men toed the mark, crouching with fingertips to the ground and waiting the starter's revolver-shot. Three were in their stocking-feet, and the remaining two wore spiked running-shoes. "Young men's race," Bert read from the program. "An' only one prize twenty-five dollars. See the red-head with the spikes the one next to the outside. San Francisco's set on him winning.
But they could hear him mournfully howling till they passed out of sight behind a belt of river timber. Here the train was halted. The Scotch half-breed slowly retraced his steps to the camp they had left. The men ceased talking. A revolver-shot rang out. The man came back hurriedly.
In his enthusiasm he pressed on too rapidly. He was seen, and his intent guessed. The leading car slowed a trifle in rounding a bend; as Carshaw careened into view a revolver-shot rang out, and a bullet drilled a neat hole in the wind-screen, making a noise like the sharp crack of a whip. Simultaneously came a scream! That must be Winifred's cry of terror in his behalf. The sound nerved him anew.
"Presently we'll make for the river-bank," said Trirodov. "We are quite close to it." Suddenly they heard the crackle of breaking twigs above them, followed by a revolver-shot and outcries. A running figure defined itself in the dark. "Kiril!" called Elisaveta in a whisper, "come here." Kiril heard her, and threw himself through the bushes in the direction of the hiding-place.
A hoarse shout blended with it, and then the report of a revolver-shot echoed through the place. For a few minutes there was silence, deathly, nerve-destroying silence. Durham, trembling with mortification, strained his ears to catch some further sound. Two shots in quick succession rang out, followed by a rush of scuffling feet, and on the air there came the thud of galloping horses' hoofs.
Yeoo-oo-oo Buff. Bang. As it is difficult to make a noise in print, it might be well to explain that, of the above words, the last is supposed to sound like a revolver-shot. It is as near as we can come to the disturbance made by a Texas "prairie buster" as he came down Claxton road. Ahead of him were ten oxen five yoke. His far-reaching bull-whip exploded just beside Rip's left ear.
The tipstaff waited cheerfully enough, until he heard the crack of a revolver-shot echo through the passages of the big boarding-house. Then he rushed upstairs to find that Gavan Blake had gone before another Court than the one that was waiting for him so anxiously. After the great case was over life at Kuryong went on its old round.
She shrieked aloud and sprang forward like a terrified animal. The man's eyes maddened her more than the deadly little weapon that flashed into view in his right hand. There followed prompt upon her cry the sharp explosion of a revolver-shot, and then the din of a panic-stricken crowd. But Nina did not share the panic.
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