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Updated: June 29, 2025
I suppose Rivarez must have been startled, for he dropped his pistol-hand and put the other one up like this" laying the back of his left wrist across his eyes "and of course they all rushed on him." "I can't make that out," said Michele. "It's not like Rivarez to lose his head at a crisis." "Probably he lowered his pistol for fear of killing an unarmed man," Martini put in.
Hull spurs in front of his eager troop, holding high his pistol-hand: "Now, men, follow till I drop; and then keep ahead! Come on!"
Then, even as Barnabas stared down wide-eyed, the rigid figure started, the deadly pistol-hand wavered, was snatched back, and Mr. Chichester leapt to his feet. He stood a moment hesitating as one at a sudden loss, then crossing to the unconscious form of Barrymaine, he set the pistol under his lax hand, turned, and vanished into the shadow.
Now, at the sight of this paper, Barrymaine fell back a step, his pistol-hand wavered, fell to his side, and sinking into a chair, he seemed to shrink into himself as he stared dully at a worn patch in the carpet. "Only one beside myself knows of this," said Barnabas. "Well?" The word seemed wrung from Barrymaine's quivering lips.
The Lieutenant started a further remonstrance, but Shorty had in the meantime got the other hand on the canoe, and he gave it such a wrench that the man with the pistol lost his footing and fell across the log, where he was grabbed by Shorty and his pistol-hand secured.
His real personality, his true ego, was absolutely absorbed in the one vital, all-deciding problem of that stiffening pistol-hand. Suddenly something seemed to cry in his ear: "You have it now! Fire!" His hand leaped back with the crashing discharge, loud-echoing in the cave. H'yemba did not even yell.
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