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The barred windows, placed there to prevent the escape of the unfortunate girl prisoners, were their Nemesis, for they were at the mercy of the lone policeman. "Drop that gun!" snapped Burke, as he saw the Swede reaching stealthily toward a pocket. His own, a blue-steeled weapon, was swinging from side to side as he covered them.
He grinned as he looked at the wicked little blue-steeled Savage. "I hope you ain't mistaken, Billy," he said, "for it 'll be the first excitement we've had in a year." None of his enthusiasm revealed itself in MacVeigh's face. "The Eskimo never fights until he's gone mad, Pelly," he said, "and you know what madmen are. I can't guess what they've got to fight over, unless they want our grub.
And, besides" he drew from his pocket a blue-steeled Savage automatic "I know how to use this." He pointed to a knot in the wall of the cabin. "Observe," he said. Five times he fired at twenty paces, and when Sandy went up to look at the knot he gave a gasp. There was one jagged hole where the knot had been. "Pretty good," he grinned. "Most men couldn't do better'n that with a rifle."
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