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Giletti then clutched the gun; the two men wrestled for it, and it exploded close to Giletti's ear. Staggered for an instant, he quickly recovered himself; drawing from its sheath a "property" sword, he fell once more upon Fabrice. "Look out! he will kill you," came an agitated whisper from Marietta; "take this!" A sort of hunting knife was flung out of the carriage door.
Enraged at the idea, he thrust the hunting knife at Giletti's breast with all his force. Giletti fell and lay motionless. "He is dead!" said Fabrice to himself. Then, turning to the coach, he asked, "Have you a looking-glass?" His eyes and teeth were undamaged; he was not permanently disfigured. Hastily, then, he turned to thoughts of escape.
Marietta gave him Giletti's passport; obviously his first business was to get across the frontier. And yet the Austrian frontier was no safe one for him to cross. Were he recognised, he might expect ten years in an Imperial fortress. But this was the less immediate danger, and he determined to risk it.
With considerable trepidation he walked across the bridge, and presented Giletti's passport to the Austrian gendarme. The gendarme looked at it, and rose, "You must wait, monsieur; there is a difficulty," he said, and left the room.
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