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Then he fell on his knees and murmured: "My God! my God!" without believing, nevertheless, in God. And he no longer dared, in fact, to look at his window, where he knew the apparition was hiding, nor at his table, where his revolver gleamed. When he had risen up he said: "This cannot last; there must be an end of it."
"The noise called the police to the place, and one of the robbers was secured. "The watchful parrot saved his owner's silver. When he was praised for his timely interference, he would arch his head, and begin at once to call out, "'You lazy rascals, I see you! John, bring me my revolver!"
Away sped the escaped captive, darting between the legs of struggling braves, sheltered by the robes of hurrying squaws; away, right, left, anywhere, everywhere, scattered the blanketed, jabbering groups, leaving on the scene of action only the agent, the quickly rallying guard, and upward of fivescore of jeering, taunting screeching warriors, at least a dozen of them now dismounted, dancing and brandishing knife and tomahawk, rifle or revolver, about the still writhing group rolling upon the wooden floor, McPhail and his assailants.
There is an old classmate, and a very dear friend, indeed, who lives on Flushing Bay, and has a pair of hopelessly ferocious dogs that hold the neighbourhood in terror. The only occasion on which they have been known to show indifference to strangers was one night when burglars broke in and stole some silver and a revolver.
"It knocked me cold," continued Cartwright, "and when I come to, they wasn't no sign nor trace of 'em." Buckling on the belt, he shoved the revolver viciously home in the holster. "I'll land that pair before the posse gets to 'em, and when I land 'em I won't do no arguing with fists!"
'No, responded Julia stoutly. 'I don't see why I should be more afraid than you would be; I am weaker, of course, but when I found I must sleep alone in the house I bought a revolver wonderfully cheap, and made the man show me how to use it. 'And how do you use it? demanded Gideon, much amused at her courage.
And now, as soon as Schmidt had started after the horse, he crawled over to the saddle, which lay where it had fallen. He took the heavy revolver from the holster and was duly grateful for one thing he had noticed these Uhlans carried no carbines. Their only weapons, seemingly, were their lances and the revolvers in their holsters. He was not a moment too soon.
For reply Bonner seized the edge of the door with his left hand, first pushing his revolver in his trousers' pocket. Then he silently swung the heavy cane through the air and downward, a very faint light from below revealing the shock head of Davy in the aperture. It was a mighty blow and true. Davy's body fell away from the trap, and a second later Bonner's dropped through the hole.
I opened the door softly so as not to frighten him, and walked out into the passage and into the library, and as I did so I took my revolver out of my pocket and carried it in my hand. I wasn't going to shoot him, but I meant to hold him up while I told him the truth.
He had not done that yet, even when she had been in his room at Monteverde and the loaded revolver had been between them. Sister Giovanna kept his hand bravely in hers and sat still, though it was hard.
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