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Tucson sighed, placed both hands to his chest, and pitched forward headlong, stretching his length in the sand. For an instant Leviatt stood rigid, his left arm swinging helplessly by his side, broken by the stray-man's bullet, an expression of surprise and fear in his eyes. Then with a sudden, savage motion he dragged again at his gun. One of the stray-man's guns crashed again, sharply.
The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manoeuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail. The air was thick with flying wreckage, detached ropes and stays were hissing and coiling like snakes, and down through it all crashed the gaff of the foresail.
They met Blythe. A stoker swung a cutlas and rushed for him. Full in the forehead a bullet from the captain's revolver crashed into his brain. Like a football tackler the body plunged forward to Sam's feet. For a moment nobody moved or spoke. Then, "My God!" groaned Henry Fleming. I cannot account for it.
When the great roan crashed through the thickets into his sight he leaped as if he had been stung, and plunged away. The Naabs had hemmed him in a triangle, Dave and Billy at the broad end, August at the apex, and now the real race began. August chased him up and down, along the rim, across to the long line of cedars, always in the end heading him for the open stretch.
If he hadn't done that, I'd never have had a chance to get aboard." "Good thing you figured out what I was doing," Scotty admitted. "When I saw you moving fast toward the boat, I knew it was okay, and that I didn't have to crash." Rick stared. "Do you mean you'd have actually crashed?" "Not head on, because that would have hurt the girls.
Leith's voice roared an order. "Put out the light!" Soma immediately crashed the lantern upon the ground, and I heard Holman groan. "I missed him!" he whispered. "Move along a little, Verslun; they've got a line on our position." We didn't move a minute too soon.
"Why, Weber?" "Because I fire first!" Absorbed in the talk John had unconsciously lowered the automatic, and, as agile as a panther, Weber suddenly leaped to one side, snatched a revolver from his own pocket and pulled the trigger. But the bullet flew wild. A huge shadow hovered over him and a weight crashed upon his head, smiting him down as if he had been struck by a giant shell.
"If you don't stay there, I'll open the door and go outside to fight! Do you understand? Stay there!" His clenched fist was in their faces, his voice almost a shout. He saw another white spurt of dust; the bullet crashed in tinware, and following the crash came a shriek from Keok in the attic. In that upper gloom Sokwenna's gun had fallen with a clatter.
As they crashed heavily into them, the men leapt from their seats and sprang over into the small boats, threw off the painters, and rowed astern, opening on either hand to allow the second line of fire ships to pass. These, by Gervaise's directions, divided, and three bore along on either side of the corsairs, and then ran in among them, throwing grapnels to fasten the fire ships alongside.
"So here goes!" and without further warning his large and well-aimed foot crashed through a long front window which reached down to the floor. "Oh, my gracious!" exclaimed Patty. "WHAT a thing to do!" "The only way is the best way," returned Bill, gaily. "Now, wait a minute, you girls, I'll let you in."
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