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Updated: May 11, 2025
Without a word or a cry the count fell forward on the deck, killed as a bullock by a blow of a poleax. While this conflict had been going on, occasionally the loud screams of a woman had been heard below. Cuthbert, attended by Cnut and two of his followers, now descended. At the bottom of the steps they found a man-at-arms placed at the door of a cabin.
Then the head of the eight-foot python that had been creeping up round that corner in the process of stalking that cat whizzed by beneath him like a hurled poleax. As he landed the genet heard the cat make one sound only one and it was indescribable, and he dropped off the veranda into the shadow of a bush, where the female genet presently joined him.
She drank it in two gulps, set the empty glass down. She shivered like an animal as it is hit in the head with a poleax. The mechanism of life staggered, hesitated, went on with a sudden leaping acceleration of pace. Susan tapped her glass against the matchstand. The bartender came. "Another," said she. The man stared at her. "The hell!" he ejaculated. "You must be afraid o' catchin' cold.
He picked me up, put me under one arm and my bundle under the other, and was proceeding on his march, when three men came rollicking up. "Hullo, Poleax Costello What's that? Work for us? A demp unpleasant body?" "Oh, Mr. Bromley, sir! Hope you're well, sir! Werry rum go this here, sir! I finds this cove in the streets. He says his mother turned him out o' doors.
Armory hall was a large and lofty chamber with vaulted ceiling, that dated back almost to the early Norman period; its walls, decorated in geometrical designs, were covered with many varieties of antique weapons of warfare; halberd and mace gleamed and mingled with harquebus, poleax or lance.
He considered a grate-bar from a heating furnace, and then he found the poleax, lying among a pile of wormeaten boards. Its handle had been shortened, at some time, to about twelve inches, converting it into a heavy hatchet. He weighed it, and tried it on a block of wood, and then, making sure that the secret door was closed, he went out again and drove off. An hour later, he returned.
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