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Kingsley," I said without further preliminaries, "I have taken the liberty of bringing you here, as the most honorable man I know, in order that you should witness the adjustment of an affair of honor between Mr. Edgerton and myself." As I spoke I unrolled the pistol-case. Edgerton grew pale as death, but remained silent.
"Waive etiquette! why, sir, we have no quarrel with you; never saw you before." "Well, now, isn't this hard?" said Mr. O'Gorman, addressing his friend, who stood by with a pistol-case under his arm; "but I told Mark that I was sure they'd be standing upon punctilio, for they were English. Well, sir," said he, turning towards Curzon, "there's but one way to arrange it now, that I see. Mr.
"I always drive with one of these" he said, half apologetically, as I thought "they are so handy on the road for the cur dogs, when you have setters with you they plague your life out else. Have you the pistol-case in, Tim, for I don't see it?" "All raight, sur," answered he, not over well pleased, as it seemed, that it should even be suspected that he could have forgotten any thing "All raight!"
Was it possible that the key of the pistol-case had been deliberately concealed because the box had something to hide which formed a connection between the pistols and the presence of the cap in the grate? That inference could only be tested by an examination of the case of pistols. The experiment was undoubtedly worth trying. Colwyn left the room and descended the stairs.
Pompey Hicks is giving elaborate directions to his servant, and asking loudly, 'Davis, where's the dwessing-case? and 'Davis, you'd best take the pistol-case into the cabin. Little Pompey travels with a dressing-case, and without a beard: whom he is going to shoot with his pistols, who on earth can tell? and what he is to do with his servant but wait upon him, I am at a loss to conjecture.
It was not until the following afternoon in the gun-room, when Musard drew your attention to the pistol-case, that I remembered that the pistol I had used was still at the back of the fireplace upstairs, where apparently it had lain undiscovered during my illness. I had taken the precaution of concealing the key of the case, but I decided to restore the pistol that night after you left.
"I have shaken the reptile from me, however," said Costigan; "and as for his uncle, I'll have such a revenge on that old man, as shall make 'um rue the day he ever insulted a Costigan." "What do you mean, General?" said Bows. "I mean to have his life, Bows his villanous, skulking life, my boy;" and he rapped upon the battered old pistol-case in an ominous and savage manner.
We drove first to Kingsley's, and took him up; then, to my office, where I got out, and, entering the office, wrapped up my pistol-case carefully in a newspaper, so that the contents might not be conjectured, and bringing it forth, thrust it into the boot of the carriage. "What have you got there?" demanded Kingsley. "Something for digestion," was my reply. "We may be kept late."
My pistol-case I placed conspicuously before me, to avoid being forgotten in the haste of departure; and, having ordered my servant to sit up all night in the guard-room until he heard the carriage at the barrack-gate, threw myself on my bed, but not to sleep.
I meant to get some the morrow morning, afore ye were up." Mohun shrugged his shoulders, whistling softly. "Man proposes," he said. "It's almost a pity we found so many cocks in the lower copse this afternoon. I have fifteen charges or so in my pistol-case. We must make that do, loading the rifles light." Then he went to a window, whence he could see down the road; the moon was shining brightly.
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