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Bullets reached for him, ripping through the tips of the sage above him, tossing up spurts of gravel on all sides and singing in ricochets from the rocks. One raider, in his eagerness to secure a better view, incautiously exposed his head. He went down with a hole through his mask as a shot sounded from the main house.
Came a hail from the lookout forward, "Ship, sir!" he sang out. "Where away?" demanded Captain Stoneman from the bridge. "Dead ahead, sir!" Half an hour later the light of an approaching vessel became visible to all on deck. "The raider, do you suppose?" asked Frank, who stood near the captain. "How do I know?" demanded the captain angrily. "It may be and it may not be."
The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest.
There was a sudden twang as the brown fingers released their hold, and without a sound the raider sank forward upon his face, a wooden shaft transfixing his heart and protruding a foot from his black chest. Then Tarzan turned his attention to the fifty women and youths chained neck to neck on the long slave chain.
Though fearfully reduced in numbers, our battalion had still about one hundred well men in it, and these formed the nucleus for Key's band of "Regulators," as they were styled. Among them were several who had no equals in physical strength and courage in any of the Raider chiefs.
Gradually the shape in the water became more distinct. It was indeed the wreckage of the German raider that Jack beheld there in the darkness. "Pretty good shooting, Jack, old boy," the lad told himself. "Can't tell whether the crew went down or has made off in the boats. However, there is nothing we can do for them. Guess I'd better be getting back below." He descended the ladder.
Never seen a rebel or a raider till I got to town. Figgered Nell made the trip in five hours. I went straight to the camp of the cavalrymen, an' found them just coolin' off an' dressin' down their hosses after what looked to me like a big ride. I got there too late for the fireworks. "Some soldier took me to an officer's tent. Nell was there, some white an' all in.
"Nothing at sea could be worse than a collision. We are simply taking our lives in our hands, tearing along like this at sixteen knots an hour." "Isn't there supposed to be a German raider out?" the other enquired. "I think it is exceedingly doubtful whether there is really one in the Atlantic at all. The English gunboats patrol these seas.
Horrocks gone; the troopers withdrawn, or, at least, without a guiding hand, what might Retief not be free to do while the settlement awaited the coming of a fresh detachment of police. He impotently cursed the raider. The craven weakness, induced by his condition of nervous prostration, was almost pitiable.
Nothing would now do but that the old man must seek his revenge at the earliest possible moment, so when dawn broke he was already following the trail of the malicious raider.
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