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Updated: April 30, 2025
Suddenly Redwing arose, as Flipp played an ace on his adversary's last card, and raked the dust toward himself. "Yer tuk that ace out of yer sleeve I seed yer do it. Give me back my ounces," said Redwing. "It's a lie!" roared the great Flipp, springing to his feet, and seizing Redwing's pistol-arm. The weapon fell, and both men clutched like tigers.
There was an unusual sound behind, such as a rat might have made, and Hampton glanced aside apprehensively. In that single second Slavin was upon him, grasping his pistol-arm at the wrist, and striving with hairy hand to get a death-grip about his throat. Twice Hampton's left drove straight out into that red, gloating face, and then the giant's crushing weight bore him backward.
The tall guard stood moveless until the weapon was actually in sight, and then the arm in the blue coat shot out, strong, swift, straight from the shoulder, and the pistol-arm dropped, the weapon fell to the ground, and the man staggered back, to be received in the unwilling arms of the head-waiter, to struggle there for a moment, and then to submit, quite as much to the fire in the young guard's eye as to the strength of his arm.
Angelo obeyed, just in time to hear: "One !" "Bang!" Just one report, and a little tuft of white hair floated slowly to the judge's feet in the moonlight. The judge did not swerve; he still stood erect and motionless, like a statue, with his pistol-arm hanging straight down at his side. He was reserving his fire. "Two !" "Three "! "Fire !"
The arrow shaft hummed so, as it quivered, that the captain killed it as he would a wasp; he jumped for a shot at the old warrior missed him another arrow, from the left, grazed his pistol-arm crazy-bone and his pistol fell into the road.
McKay whispered: "I'll try to shoot straight because you're hungry, Yellow-hair"; and all the while his pistol-arm slanted higher and higner. For a second, it remained motionless; then a red streak split the darkness and the pistol-shot crashed in her ears.
Up came the pistol-arm instantly-Angelo dodged with the report. He said "Ouch!" and fainted again. The doctor examined and bandaged the wound. It was of no consequence, he said bullet through fleshy part of arm no bones broken the gentleman was still able to fight let the duel proceed.
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