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Updated: May 22, 2025
Large, masculine feet they were, with peculiarly long, sharp toes. Holmes hunted about among the grass and leaves like a retriever after a wounded bird. Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder. "I thought so," said he, "the revolver had an ejector, and here is the third cartridge. I really think, Inspector Martin, that our case is almost complete."
"You are merely to present the pistol. To make sure, you had better unload it now." Wonderingly the man obeyed, and clicked back the ejector. "I will take the cartridges," said Kara, holding out his hand. He slipped the little cylinders into his pocket, and after examining the weapon returned it to its owner. "You will threaten him," he went on. "Present the revolver straight at his heart.
Then I placed an automatic ejector under his eyes, threw out the shells, cocked it and snapped it, and explained how, though it cost us $6.70, I was going to sell him some at $6. "No, you ain't," said he, "I've got two on hand and can't give them away."
So he turned into the workshop and stripped the weapon, calling each part by name until he found, in a slovenly fitted ejector, reason and excuse for exercising his limitless vocabulary upon that faithless part. He also said many things about the workman who had fitted it. "Angus Jones! O Angus Jones!" said Tam, shaking his head. Tam never spoke of anybody impersonally.
He cocked the arm and pulled back the breech block, thus opening the breech with its broken effect due to the springing of the ejector. "That's all right," approved Mr. Kincaid, pausing in the filling of his pipe, "but you have the muzzle pointing straight at Duke." "It isn't loaded," objected Bobby. "A man who knows how to handle a gun," said Mr.
"It's historic," he observed, "that since time began cops've been stickin' out hats for crooks to shoot at, and that crooks've been shooting, thinking there were heads in 'em." He put a small object in the ejector tube, poked it to proper seating, and settled himself comfortably, again. "Can you make it to about a quarter-million miles of Four," he asked cheerfully, "in one hop?"
I dozed off to the murmur of his voice expatiating on the extreme cunning of the ejector, and awoke to hear details of the rifling. We did not talk of home, as do men in books when lying by a camp- fire. Perhaps it was owing to the absence of that picturesque adjunct to a soldier's life.
"Naturally I've got it," said the skipper. "What do you want with it?" Sergeant Madden told him. Painfully. Painstakingly. "The tough part," said the skipper, "is making 'em go out an ejector tube. But I've got fourteen good men. Give me two hours for the first batch. We'll make up the second while you're placing them." Sergeant Madden nodded.
Without waiting to have the request conveyed to him in due form, and speaking directly to Edestone he said in an affable voice: "I should like to see again the picture showing the working of the bomb-dropping device, and I would like to have the film stopped exactly at the moment that the projectile leaves the tube. I wish to examine the action of the ejector."
It has been used daily for six years in several garrisons, and therefore has the sanction of practice. This apparatus, which is due to Mr. Herbet, consists of a steam boiler and of an ejector fixed to a reservoir of water and provided with a rubber tube to which a nozzle is attached. The steam generated in the boiler passes into the ejector, sucks up the water and forces it out in a tepid state.
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