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"This is the finest automatic pistol in the world, and I am one of the best marksmen in the American Army. I shall leave you, for the present, ungagged, but if rescue comes to you by any efforts of your own, I give you my word of honour as an American gentleman that I shall shoot the three of you and be proud of my night's work." "And swing for it afterwards," Dredlinton threatened.
Resistance was vain. The kidnappers gagged him, wrenched his cane from his hand, and covered his face with a cloak. They were about to drag him away, when a sixth figure bounded upon the scene. "Halt!" was his single cry in French. The men stopped. "Release your prisoner." They obeyed instantly and without a remonstrance. "Ungag him." They ungagged him. "Restore him his cane."
The rest was like a dream; in an instant they were seized, bound, and gagged, and laid down in the field at some distance from the road; one of them, however, being ungagged, and asked a few questions before being finally left.
As soon as I was safe in the room, the master man among them, who as I have since learned is a professed keeper of the insane, ungagged me, took off the straight waistcoat, and then they all left me. I stood I know not how long in that stupor of amazement which the scene, and the crowding conjuctures of imagination, necessarily produced. At length, I roused my mind to more activity.
We will give our word to be silent." The other prisoners also promised, and were allowed to take their places in the column, ungagged. The alarm was given long before the rear of the column had got out from the street.
"Rub some on his hands, and then let him go," suggested another. "When he gets home I guess he'll surprise his mammy: I don't believe his own dog will know him!" A shout of laughter followed this remark, in the midst of which they ungagged Mr. Stevens and turned him from the door.
Finally ungagged, those who had been holding off gave the story the works. The effects of the pest plane, of the pest bombs, were the most vicious that could be developed in the laboratories of bacterial war and they put to shame the naturally-occurring epidemics that have scourged mankind throughout his history. And the effects were spreading with the speed of a prairie fire before a high wind.
It was instantly diverted toward the Little Tennessee River, on the western side of the Great Smoky Mountains; and as Attusah realized that without his connivance his captive's escape had become impossible, MacVintie found himself unbound, ungagged, and the society of the ada-wehi as pleasant as that of a savage ghost can well be. There was now no effort to escape.
When we had done this, we took all our prisoners, and brought them, having untied their feet and ungagged their mouths, and made them stand up, and set them all before their monstrous idol, and then set fire to the whole.
As soon as Neroweg was uncovered and ungagged Karadeucq said to him: "Count, your hands will remain bound, but I shall now free your legs. Will you walk to the forest with us?" "You mean to kill me there! Let us walk, accursed mountebank, you will see how a Frank marches with a firm step to death you Gallic dogs, race of slaves!"
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