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Updated: June 2, 2025
He had friends, too friends he could not afford to lose friends who could not afford to lose him. Doubtless his murder would be avenged in due course; but He grimaced wrily to himself in the darkness, and tried once more to ease his cramped limbs. From outside came the murmur of voices. He could just see the shoulder of one of his guards at the entrance and the steel glint of a rifle-barrel.
Twenty-seven yards, or about two-thirds the distance, if the shot was offhand. "A chunk" was any rest for the rifle a bowed limb cut from a tree, the fork of a limb driven firmly into the ground, a part of a log anything that was the height to give the needed low level to the rifle-barrel when the shooter lay sprawled behind the gun.
The fear of the ambushed thing is the worst fear of this world the sword or the rifle-barrel you cannot see and the poisoned wooden spear which the men of the jungle throw gives a man ten deaths, instead of one. Cumner's Son mounted quickly, straining his eyes to see and keeping his pistol cocked.
The remaining savages made as though to take instant vengeance for this deadly insult and, as they imagined, murder of their leader, but their impulse was checked by a stern command from behind. Glancing in that direction, they saw themselves covered by a long, brown rifle-barrel, held by a white man clad in the leathern costume of the backwoods.
It was too far off for me to see distinctly; but knowledge supplied what my eyes failed to grasp, and I knew the gleam was from his rifle-barrel reflecting the sun's rays, and the man's attitude that of one about to try a long shot at the uncouth animal in view beyond the thorny scrub. There is an old-fashioned saying about people's feelings in critical moments: that their hearts stood still.
When he reflected that, in all probability a rifle-barrel was leveled through those bushes, ready to do its deadly work, he was not ashamed to halt and allow the Huron to proceed alone. But, no fear seemed to enter the head of the Indian. He strode straight forward, as if he had discovered something which he was about to pick, and, reaching the bushes, he parted and stepped among them.
Soon a rifle-barrel protruded from behind the tree. With his heart beating like a trip-hammer, and the skin tightening on his face, Joe screened his body as best he might. The tree was small, but it served as a partial protection. Rapidly he revolved in his mind plans to outwit the enemy.
Thus it came about that one evening he tramped somewhat dejectedly back towards his camp through a strip of thinner forest high up on the hill. There was a sting of frost in the air and a little snow beneath his feet, while his belt was girded about him tightly and his fingers stiffened on the rifle-barrel.
I have marks yet on my knuckles that the schoolmaster gave me." "What are you doing?" demanded Daniel, apparently for the first time becoming aware of Peleg's occupation. "I am making a new stock for this rifle-barrel." "The gun looks like it might kick," commented Daniel sagely, looking critically at the rifle-barrel which was lying upon the rude little bench at which Peleg was working.
And, now feeling fear no more than pain, Stern crouched to meet his onslaught. It all happened in a moment of time, a moment, long in seeming as an hour. The girl's revolver crackled, there behind him. Stern saw a little round bluish hole take shape in the obeah's ear, and red drops start. Then with a ghastly screaming, the Thing was upon him. Out struck the engineer, with the rifle-barrel.
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