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Then, half-turning and swinging his hat defiantly above his head, the daring young trooper sprang back to his place of safety. As he did so, something seemed to go wrong, and instead of landing on his feet he pitched awkwardly, and then lay motionless in the bottom of the trench.
"Bid him enter," said the Bishop, gripping the arms of the chair, and leaning forward. The Chaplain, half-turning, beckoned with uplifted hand; then stood aside, as rapid feet approached. A young man, clad in a brown riding-suit, dusty and travel-stained, appeared in the doorway.
Suddenly the butt of the rifle sprang to his right shoulder, a flash of smoke and flame leaped from the muzzle of the gun, and a tiny black patch appeared, like magic, fairly in the center of the target. Dropping to his saddle, half-turning his body, Tad Butler sent back a second shot hard on the report of the first one, once more planting a leaden pellet in the now well-riddled paper.
The fog shut them in with each other; and Armitage and Claiborne, having flung back their own horses at the onset, had an instant's glimpse of Chauvenet trying to swing his horse into the road; of Zmai half-turning, as his horse reared, to listen for the foe behind; and of Durand's impassive white face as he steadied his horse with his left hand and leveled a revolver at Armitage with his right.
But look ye here if you come cussing, and spitting, and swearing at me again in your nasty heathen dialect, why, if I don't No," he says, stopping short, and half-turning to me, "I can't black his eyes, Isaac, for they're black enough already; but let him come any more of it, and, jiggermaree, if I don't bung 'em!"
Then half-turning toward us, he made his first remark. "Them two hosses is gorming." "Yes," we replied, "they do seem rather so." This was of course profound hypocrisy; but "gorming" meant some bad quality, and any might be safely predicated of our huckleberry pair. Who will admit that he does not know all that is to be known in horse-matters?
It is dead, impaled upon the sharp spikes of the plant, as it came there by falling from above. A smile curls upon her lips as she sits regarding it. "So, yegua!" she says, bringing the mare to a stand, and half-turning her. "I've been losing my time and you your labour. The abominable birds it's only one of themselves that has dropped dead, and they're holding a velorio over it."
But it was certainly very hard labour, harder than she had ever found it before. She began to feel as if her limbs were weighted, and the fruit itself danced giddily before her aching eyes. Suddenly she heard a step on the ash-path near her. She looked up, half-turning as she did so. The next instant it was as if a knife had suddenly pierced her temples.
Fontelles, growing puzzled and ill at ease, waited some moments before he ventured to address her; her air was not such as to encourage him; her cheek was reddened and her eyes were indignant. Yet at last he plucked up his courage. "I trust, madame," said he, "that I may carry the fairest of answers back with me?" "What answer is that, sir?" she asked, half-turning to him with a scornful glance.
"When this town fight is over, bring your warrant around and I'll talk to you." "No," returned Scott, undisturbed, "I might lose track of you again. You can come right along with me, Levake." With incredible quickness the outlaw, half-turning to cover Scott, fired. The cat-like agility of the Indian answered the move in the instant it was made.
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