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Updated: May 18, 2025
The jacketed lord of the dining-car saw her from afar and advanced to show her to a seat that she might ride forward, sit next to a shaded window and be free from the glare of the sun on the other side.
Its nose was spread to the size of a half- dollar, its butt-end, steel-jacketed, was undamaged. He compared it with a cartridge from Smoke's belt. "That's plain enough evidence, Stranger, to satisfy a blind man. It's soft-nosed an' steel-jacketed; yourn is soft-nosed and steel- jacketed. It's thirty-thirty; yourn is thirty-thirty.
In the ensuing battle he had lost two of his own men, but the punishment inflicted upon the marauders had been severe almost to extinction. A half dozen, perhaps, had escaped; but the balance, with the exception of the five prisoners, had expiated their crimes before the nickel jacketed bullets of the legionaries. And, best of all, the ring leader, Achmet ben Houdin, was among the prisoners.
"Don't forget it's Thursday. They shut up at two, and it's not far off two now." "I'm going this very minute," said Hilda. "And I'm going this very second!" Alicia retorted. They all three left Janet's bedroom; the new cloak cast over a chair- back, was degraded into a tedious banality and ignored. In less than a minute Hilda, hatted and jacketed and partially gloved, was crossing the garden.
The steel jacketed bullet hit a stone and spitefully whined away into the canyon. I tried once more. This time I struck close to the lioness. Disconcerted by a cloud of dust rising before her very eyes she wheeled and ran back. We had forgotten Don and suddenly he darted out of the thicket, straight up the slide. Always, in every chase, we were afraid the great hound would run to meet his death.
When the gong had sounded, and everybody assembled for breakfast, the vast dining-room, coldly magnificent in white and gold, and all astir with white jacketed waiters, seemed stranger and more unhomelike still. Everything was novel, but for once novelty only wearied instead of charming. By noon they were on board the steamer. Mr. Strafford went on board with them and stayed till the last minute.
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