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"Jim, and Lance, and Jerry, and Abner?" she asked almost abstractedly. "Jim's dead-shot by a U. S. marshal by mistake for a smuggler," answered Black Andy suggestively. "Lance is up on the Yukon, busted; Jerry is one of our, hands on the place; and Abner is in jail." "Abner-in jail!" she exclaimed in a dazed way. "What did he do? Abner always seemed so straight."
And later on, when Arnold's men came up the Kennebec, it was satisfactorily explained to most of the habitants that it was no good resisting dead-shot riflemen who were bullet-proof themselves. Carleton issued proclamations. The seigneurs waved their swords. The clergy thundered from their pulpits. But all in vain.
He was of great family and of distinguished appearance, munificent and singularly frank; was a dead-shot, and the boldest of riders, with horses which were the admiration alike of Melton and Newmarket. The ladies also approved of him, for he was a consummate waltzer, and mixed with a badinage gaily cynical a tone that could be tender and a bewitching smile. But his great friend was Lady Montfort.
He will probably be horrified to hear that men can detest each other as cordially in khaki as in any other wear, and with a virulence seldom inspired by the bearded dead-shot in the opposite trench. I must be vague, for obvious reasons. The troop is fighting as I write; you will soon hear why I am not; but neither is Raffles, nor Corporal Connal.
"Women, roulette, champagne, and high life all these past riches fade away into the gloomy pleasures of restaurant cognac, dead-shot absinthe, and the vicarious smiles of a broken soubrette or so! And all the more you can be now dangerous to me, Monsieur Casimir Wieniawski, for the old maneater forgets none of his tricks, even when toothless."
"This meetin' will now come to order," called out the chairman of dead-shot fame, giving two or three good, hard thumps on the table with his heavy fist. As the buzzing in the room ceased and each man gave his attention the speaker continued. "You fellers all know why we came here to-day.
I dare not discharge you but might you not be rescued in the way ay sure a word to Lieutenant Brown, and I would send the people with you by the coast-road." "No, no! that won't do Brown's dead-shot laid in the locker, man the devil has the picking of him." "Dead? shot? at Woodbourne, I suppose?" replied Glossin. "Yaw, Mynheer."
I meant, a dead-shot with the revolver knows beforehand, in the draw, where his bullet shall go. Some men are born to shoot straight; some have to practice a long, long while. I wonder which you are." "If there is pressing need in my case," said I, "I shall have to rely upon my friends to keep me from being done for." "You?" she uttered, with a touch of asperity. "Oh, yes. Pish, sir!
"He was very like the rest of us only a little more reckless and a little more partisan, that's all. He was a dashing horseman and a dead-shot, and so, naturally, a leader of these daredevils. He was popular with both sides of the controversy up to the very moment when he went South to lead the invaders against the rustlers." "What was it all about? I never understood it.
Now I confess I never did care much about religion, but I thought, without being really a hypocrite, I'd just let you try to save my soul for the sake of getting you; for there's nothing surer to hook a woman than trying to save a fellow's soul. It's a dead-shot, generally, that. Now our ship sails to-night, and I thought I'd just come across this path in the orchard to speak to you.
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