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Updated: May 18, 2025
"I am not so sure of that," said the other, suspiciously. "You are a Doomsman, and you know me to be a Stockader a spy, if you like. If it were for myself alone I might trust you, but so much may hang " He stopped abruptly and his eyes darkened. "The only sure way lies at my knife-point." He scanned intently the face which paled before his gaze, yet changed not in the smallest line.
And sometimes I would hear the soft, slurring whisper his fingers made against deck or bulkhead where he groped for me, and once a snorting gasp and the crunch of his murderous knife-point biting into wood and thereafter a hoarse and outlandish muttering.
Oh, never mind answering," she went on. "It's enough to see you." A step behind her diverted her attention from Barry. Barry ran up the steps, and taking the V. A. D. by the hand, led her down. "I want you to meet a friend of mine," he said and introduced Paula. Paula's eyes, keen as a knife-point, were upon the V. A. D.'s face. "I'm glad to know you," she said frankly, offering her hand.
Now it is here, Señor, where no knife-point can steal into it and cunningly cut the strands that are hidden, so that the señor would not observe and would place faith upon it and be betrayed." Diego lifted his loose, linen shirt and disclosed the riata coiled about his middle.
"Three minutes by the clock he knelt there on Faddo's chest, the knife-point touching the bone in's throat. Not one of us stirred, but just stood lookin', and my own heart beat so hard it hurt me, and my uncle steadyin' himself against the dresser. At last Lancy threw the knife away into the fire. "'Coward! he said. 'A man would ha' taken the knife.
At length I made an appeal to him, for I began to despair of the Alcalde coming to deliver me. "Friend," I said, "if you will allow me to speak, I can convince you that you are mistaken. I am a foreigner, and know nothing about Santa Coloma." "No, no," he interrupted, pressing the knife-point warningly against my stomach, then suddenly withdrawing it as if about to plunge it intome.
It was a difficult task, or would have been so to me, as he had to bore holes in the animal's hide with his knife-point, but it seemed quite easy to him.
The result was a disappointment; how great a disappointment he presently realised, as his knife-point encountered only plaster under the peeling edges of the paper. He had hoped to find other paper under the blue the paper which Miss Demarest remembered and not finding it, was conscious of a sinking of the heart which had never attended any of his miscalculations before.
The convict made for the street-door peeped out furtively. "He's turned in at young Ikey's," said he. Then to M'riar, using an epithet to her that cannot be repeated: "Down on your knees and pray that your bully may stick there till I'm clear, or ... Ah! smell that!" It was his knife-point, open, close to her face.
It would have been over in another minute; I already felt the grind of a stone knife-point at my throat, able to gain only a poor grip on the fellow's wrist, when suddenly, sounding clear as a bell above that hellish uproar, a single voice uttered an imperative command.
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