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Updated: June 27, 2025
"To make things a bit fairer, this landing-party offered us as simple pretty a target as any man could wish for; nothing to do but fire down on 'em at forty yards, bob back and reload, with ne'er a chance of their climbing up to do us a mischief or even to count how many we were. I touched Sir John's elbow and tapped my gun-stock, and for the moment he seemed to think well of it.
Enoch showed him the hole in the breast of his coat. "That was made by your bullet." "The boy's life is charmed!" muttered Halpen. "You had much better have used your gun-stock, Master Halpen. You would have been surer to kill me then." At this an expression of positive terror came into the prisoner's features. "I am not a murderer," he exclaimed.
Guy had three or four shots and Yan had the same without hitting the stump. Then Caleb said, "Lemme show you." His big rugged hand seemed to swallow up the little gun-stock. His long knobbed finger fitted around the lock in a strange but familiar way.
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