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He stooped down to the trunk again and took out a six-chambered American revolver. "You've got weapons enough, and very good ones." "Very, extremely." Kirillov, who was poor, almost destitute, though he never noticed his poverty, was evidently proud of showing precious weapons, which he had certainly obtained with great sacrifice. "You still have the same intentions?"
He jumped to his feet with a cry, and stood glaring down at me with a gleam in his eyes which was positively murderous. "You villain!" he hissed in low tones of concentrated fury, "so that's your game, is it? I'll give you something that you'll want advice about," and he whipped out a six-chambered revolver. I felt hurt. I also felt that if the interview were prolonged I might feel even more hurt.
The hot water over Harkaway's door, the paint over Harvey's, and the tar over that in which the two boys and Jefferson reposed. A string was attached to each pail, and passed over a pulley, the end being conveyed to a recess where the three watchers were concealed. They were armed. Sunday, Monday, and Petrus each had a six-chambered revolver, loaded.
Luckily for the smaller party the Malays had, at the outset of the disturbance, emptied their pieces ineffectually, and had found no time to reload them, whilst Henderson had provided himself, in addition to the two repeating rifles, with a brace of loaded six-chambered revolvers, one of which he now handed to Gaunt.
"Guess the sights ain't good over a distance, but at close range it'll make a nasty hole." Conroy took the weapon in his hand. His keen eyes noted the age of the pattern. He also saw the battered condition of the sights, and the clumsy, rusted, protruding hammer. It was six-chambered, and he knew that it must be all of forty years old. One of the earliest pattern revolvers.
There was no getting away from the facts he possessed, and if it came to anything in the shape of physical resistance, well, he was not unprepared. There was a comfortable feeling about the heavy jolt of the six-chambered "lawyer" in his pocket. The valley seemed much more lonely than usual. The horrid screeching of the watchful sentries would almost have been welcome to him.
He was the son of a clergyman, and lived at Killeentierna House with his mother, a venerable old lady over eighty, he being himself forty-five. His income was estimated at about four hundred a year, and as his relations with tenantry were not harmonious, he never went out without a six-chambered revolver in his pocket. Physically he was very robust over five feet ten in height, and very corpulent.
I started from my chair, and was about to rush to the bell and call for help, but the stranger put his left hand on my shoulder and kept me in my seat, while he drew his right hand from his coat pocket, and something glittered in the lamplight. Oh, horror! a bright, new, large, six-chambered revolver! "Be still, be silent," he said, almost in a whisper, "or you are a dead man."
Poole had brought with him the key of the arm-chest, and, opening the case, he rapidly served out to every man a cutlass with its belt and a pair of six-chambered revolvers, every one of which he had himself fully loaded only the day before, in preparation for such an emergency as the present.
But in one corner it remained: "Mab " Pierre added: "That is what they say at Humphrey's ranch." "Who says that at Humphrey's? Pierre, you lie!" was the sharp and threatening reply. The significance of this last statement had been often attested on the prairies by the piercing emphasis of a six-chambered revolver. It was evident that Young Aleck was in earnest.
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