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"The gun-shots what?" he asked, setting forward at a walk which taxed the rawbone's stride. "An invite come to the wedding; that's all. Only it's a funeral this time, and, if something good doesn't happen, there'll be more than one funeral on the Sagalac to-morrow. I've had my try, but I dunno how it'll come out. He's not a man of much dictionary is the Monseenoor." "The Monseigneur Lourde?
"That which I dare be sworn you have dreamt of being!" the scholar continued with a subtle smile. "The Grand Duke's alter ego, Mayor of the Palace, Adviser to his Highness! Yes, I hit you there? I touch you there! Oh, vanity of little men, I thought so! "He broke off and listened, as sharp on one another two gun-shots rang out at no great distance from the house.
Another individual built the town-house, which is a handsome edifice of the Corinthian order. The little brook called the Serrieres, which does not run above the length of two gun-shots before it falls into the lake, turns a great number of mills of various kinds.
Duane leaped after him. They ran into a jostling mob. Heavy gun-shots and hoarse yells hurried the crowd Duane was with pell-mell out into the darkness. There they all halted, and several peeped in at the door. "Who was the Kid callin'?" asked one outlaw. "Bud Marsh," replied another. "I reckon them fust shots was Bud's. Adios Kid. It was comin' to him," went on yet another. "How many shots?"
He did not need his glasses, now. He might see them slinging their rifles and poising their lances. It was to be lance work; they did not wish to alarm the wagon train with gun-shots. One hundred yards! Half a minute more and they would be rounding the point where the ravine bordered the hill slope, and would be upon the two couriers. Ninety yards "Ready, general!" "All right. When you say."
"Da will be fo' gittin' back to de cabe an' stayin' dar." "I hope that traveler escaped them," answered Jack. "But those gun-shots sounded dubious." "De gorillas ought all to be hung!" came from Columbus Washington. "Da aint no sodgers, no matter if da do w'ar a uniform." "They are outlaws, pure and simple," answered Jack. "But come, we must go on. Ben, how far are we from home, do you calculate?"
Yes, there were two Dreadnoughts out there, evidently saluting. But why at such a distance? "Gibson," he called down the staircase. "Come on, Ben!" came the impatient answer from below. "I can't, I wish you'd come up again for a minute, I'm sure something's wrong!" The gun-shots were booming loudly across the water as Lieutenant Spencer reached the gallery, covered with perspiration.
Tony's up to better bizness than salting mines." "Who owns the Cove Mine, Tony?" "Why, Marse Malden, I 'spec," said the surprised negro. That evening Job looked at his guardian with a queer feeling as they sat down to supper, and that night he heard gun-shots in his dreams, and awoke with a shiver and waited for something to happen. He was conscious of impending trouble. Something was wrong.
How wild and desolate this awful theatre of death appeared, while, with the sound of gun-shots still vibrating in our ears, we thought of Suleiman writhing in his death-throes, and anxiously watched the movements of the murderers. We were motionless almost breathless. Each man among us gazed silently upon his fellow.
One night, especially, pistol and gun-shots had been heard frequently in the city; the numerous patrols of the Swiss and the body-guards had even been attacked, and had met with some barricades in the tortuous streets of the Ile Notre-Dame; carts chained to the posts, and laden with barrels, prevented the cavaliers from advancing, and some musket-shots had wounded several men and horses.
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