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Updated: May 24, 2025
"Amen," came the response from the bowed heads of his companions; instantly the command was Marconied to every place which was in a state of anarchy. Suddenly came the crash of musketry from many parts of the city, accompanied by the grumbling bass of the gattling guns, then the defiant yells ceased, and all was quiet.
For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain. "No, no, no, no; and an end of it!" he cried once. And again, "If it comes to swinging, swing all, say I."
The military had followed the main bands towards the Columbia and Snake Rivers. One band attempted to cross the Columbia by swimming their stock. A steamer had been despatched up the river armed with gattling guns and protected by a force of soldiers. While the vast herd of horses and Indians were struggling in the water the boat came in sight and opened with the gatlings.
That's the only way I can stick on to drive him in, and we'll need it to hold to as well," he decided. Every moment was precious now. Whirling the animal about, Ned drove him into the thicket where the saddles lay folded against trees. It was the work of seconds for him to leap off and throw the heavy saddle on Bad-eye's back. The boy worked with the speed and precision of a Gattling gun.
The great Republic might have survived even such horrors as these had it not been for the out-breaking of another craze more terrible far than an army with gattling guns, I refer to the most destructive of all scourges, the mania for stock-gambling.
Bostwick had speeded up his motor in a panic for haste and his car leaped away like a dragon on wings, the muffler cut-out roaring like a gattling. Van might perhaps have shot and killed the escaping man who held the wheel, but he wanted Searle alive. A roar from the crowd replied to the car. A score of men ran madly in pursuit.
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