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On a second effort the slight yielding of the mass was accompanied by a sound of rending and he remembered Mut-mut's right hand, armed with a weapon of unspeakable cruelty, which only once before in his life had he seen the Mahratta baag-nouk, or Tiger's Claw.
But from the preparations of Dick Bellamy dignity was altogether absent. From the dirty cloth he unwrapped Mut-mut's baag-nouk, slipped his right hand into its straps and rings, and sank to his knees on the floor of the carriage, facing the door and its open, unblinded window.
Dick loosened the buckle of the strap, and drew the hand, already cold, from the rings; picked the baag-nouk from the cushion, wrapped it in a greasy cloth out of the tool-box, and hid it under the seat.
Having told how Amaryllis had fainted at the sight of Ockley with the knife-point protruding from the back of his neck, he extracted the Webley from his overcrowded pocket. "That," he said, "is the man's gun, which Miss Caldegard found for me." Later, he produced Mut-mut's baag-nouk, laying it, talons upward, beside the Webley. "That was strapped to his hand.
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