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A second later the Chancellor's did the same, and the Kaiser's right hand went back towards his hip pocket. Castellan got up and said: "Your Majesty has a revolver. Be good enough, as you value your own safety, to unload it, and throw the cartridges out of the window." "But why?" exclaimed the Kaiser, pulling a Mauser repeating pistol out of his hip-pocket.
Every day he went to a secret room and cared for his revolver this gun here in my hand, you see? He and I we were more than father and son we were pals, Sally. And then this devil called my father out into the night and shot him. Damn him!" "You've got to listen to me, Anthony " "I'll listen to nothing, for there he is and "
"Oh, I'll do it fast enough to suit YOU, I guess," Penrod retorted, swinging the big revolver up a little higher than his shoulder and pointing it in the direction of the double doors, which opened upon the alley. "You better run, Sam," he jeered. "You'll be pretty scared when I shoot her off, I guess." "Well, why don't you SEE if I will? I bet you're afraid yourself."
Grigosie refilled the empty chambers of his revolver as he went, and Ellerey put up his sword and took his revolver instead. Behind them the firing had ceased, but they could not doubt that they were being swiftly followed; and spread over the open which they must needs cross, a hundred men probably barred their way.
The girl did as Chester ordered. Helen, standing close to the window, allowed her revolver to rest on the sill. In the darkness, a hand appeared from below and grasped the weapon by the barrel and wrenched it from her grasp before she could pull the trigger. Helen screamed. "What's the matter?" cried Chester anxiously. "I've lost my gun," said the girl. "And here they come in the window!"
"And I on my part say, sir," replied the other, "that I must have it. I want it. I cannot do without it." "I have told you my decision," said Amos. "Indeed," said the other. "Then I am driven to an unpleasant line of persuasion, though very reluctantly." He rose, and Amos did the same. "Do you see this?" he said, taking from his pocket a revolver. "I do," said Amos.
That would be just the thing. He had no intention of avoiding people. He had a revolver lying in a desk drawer; but had he wanted to use that, even for the briefest moment? Had he thought of it even? Not at all. It just occurred to him now that it might be getting rusty. No, thank God! one was not exactly weary of life.... Ole Henriksen went to the Grand.
As he spoke a sound, half of relief and half of content came from the throats of the onlookers. The Judge did not move. He had not quivered when the revolver was levelled within a foot of his head; he did not appear to have seen it. With set eyes and pale face, and the jagged wound on his forehead whence the blood still trickled, he had waited, and now he did not seem to hear.
Fischer's fingers stole once more towards the pocket into which, at Lutchester's entrance, he had slipped his revolver. Lutchester, to all appearance, remained sublimely unconscious of the tension which his words and appearance seemed to have created. He had strolled a little further into the room, and was looking down at the packet which he still held.
"Here," said the Doctor, "this is the thing you want." He took down a much more modern and familiar implement, a small, beautifully finished revolver. "I want you to carry this," he said; "and more than that, I want you to practise with it often, as for amusement, but so that it maybe seen and understood that you are apt to have a pistol about you.
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