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Well, good enough to go on with. We'll have a chance for some peaceful practice now? Apparently, since the other mortar ceased to fire, it must have been put out of action, and the lieutenant spent a useful hour pot-shotting at the other trench. The shooting was, to say the least, erratic.
All his thoughts were bent on the overcoming of that band of Islamic outcasts now persistently pot-shotting away at the strange flying men from unknown lands "that faced not Mecca nor kept Ramadan" men already hidden in swiftly scooped depressions, from which the sand still kept flying up. "Steady, men!" the Master called. "Get your wind! Ready with the lethal guns! Each gun, one capsule.
Now that he was physically more at ease, he began reassembling his scattered mental faculties. Who was this stranger who was pot-shotting at him with such deadly animosity from the ambush below? Who Another crash of lead in tinware and steel put an unpleasant emphasis to the question.
From below and to the left of us there came a sound as of some one moving. We could hear stealthy voices in animated whisper. "I see their game," Blythe murmured in my ear. "Those fellows on deck are to keep us busy pot-shotting us while the rest climb up from below and close with us when we're not looking." A bullet zipped through a window and left a little round hole.
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