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"Come on!" shouted another. "To hell with their gunmen!" Hal pushed his way into the crowd. "Tim!" he cried. "How do you know this?" "There's a fellow in there seen it." "Who?" "I can't tell you they'd fire him; but it's somebody you know as well as me. He come and told me. They're beatin' me old father out of damages!" "They do it all the time!" shouted Wauchope, an English miner at Hal's side.
An answering shot came back to us. Meanwhile, a policeman at a corner leaped on a passing trolley and urged the motorman to put on the full power in a vain effort to pursue us as we swept by up the broad avenue. Even the East Side, accustomed to frequent running fights on the streets between rival gunmen and gangs, was roused by such an outburst.
'The Coyote did it, is what they say, an' the crooks an' gunmen that turned the deal go free. I'm talking to you, Brown, as man to man a thing I've never done with any mouthpiece of the law before. I'm trying to show you how you an' your kind can make a man an outlaw an' keep him one till somebody shoots him down. I'm sore, Brown, because I know that one of these days I'm going to get it myself!"
"And if annoying vermin, like Jacaro's gunmen" Denham's voice was brittle "had come out of it, why, intelligent men might send something living and deadly down it, as men on Earth will send ferrets down a rat-hole! To wipe out the breed! That's what's happened! Jacaro's gone through and attacked the Golden City. They've found his Tube. And they've sent these things down...."
"Elmer replied that such creatures do, indeed, exist. He called them what did he call them?" "Gunmen?" suggested Cleggett. "Yes, thank you. He brought two of them to me whom he introduced as " She paused. "The names escape me," she said. She called: "Elmer, just step here a moment, please." Elmer, who was still putting ice into the oblong box, moodily laid away his tools and approached.
Any author, any illustrator, any playwright, any scenario writer, any actor or any director who depicts Canadian wilderness life in that way is either an ignoramus or a shameless humbug. And to add strength to my statement I shall quote the experience of a gentleman who was the first City Clerk, Treasurer, Assessor, and Tax Collector of Dawson City Mr. E. Ward Smith: POLICE AND GUNMEN
So he must go away, that's all there is to it." Her father laughed. "Ain't it scandalous the way she bosses us all around, Bob?" The face of the girl sparkled to a humorous challenge. "Well, some one has got to boss you-all boys, Dad. If you'd do as I say you wouldn't have any trouble with that old Steelman or his gunmen." "We wouldn't have any oil wells either, would we, honey?"
Still planes carrying two men, and even three of whom one was the pilot, the other two the operators of the machine guns were widely adopted. They had indeed their disadvantages. They were slower to rise and clumsier in the turns. The added weight of the two gunmen cut down the amount of fuel that could be carried and limited the radius of action.
He's the king of his ward; he keeps a gang of gunmen on the East Side, and he's the worst thug in the city." Lilas substantiated this, giving further details as to Melcher's reputation, and then broke down again, weeping with such miserable abandon that Lorelei for the first time began to doubt her own previous convictions.
For at least a fortnight or three weeks the two armies remained in front of each other; Gobaze awaiting his enemy on the broken ground he had encamped upon, and where the Galla horse could not charge, but where his gunmen would be all-powerful; while the Queen, on her side, would not leave the ground she had chosen, and where she was almost certain of victory.
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