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With a supreme effort he brought himself to his feet, once more sniffed into the north, the east, and the west, then turned and buried himself in the black and frozen wilderness of tamarack. Stillness fell again with the sound of the rifle-shot. It might have lasted five minutes or ten, when a long, solitary howl floated from across the lake.
A blaze-faced horse was standing a short rifle-shot away, bridled and with an empty saddle. Whether he was tied or not Lone could not tell at that distance, but he knew the horse by its banged forelock and its white face and sorrel ears, and he knew the owner of the horse. He rode toward it slowly.
The spherical shot, presenting a larger area to the action of the powder, for a given weight, than the elongated rifle-shot, has a higher initial velocity with a given charge; and all the power applied to it is converted into velocity, while a part of the power applied to the rifle-shot is employed in spinning it on its axis.
Alton understood that Thorne was talking to cover any embarrassment he may have felt, but was not especially grateful just then. "No," he said; "a rifle-shot." He fancied that Thorne was a trifle astonished, and remembered Seaforth's story, but they had gained the head of the stairway now, and he looked at Alice Deringham as he added, "And the effect will not wear off."
He came and woke me at daylight and told me that everything was still quiet and that the sentries were all in their places. Then, when we had breakfasted on the food that we had brought with us from the fortress, we called in all the sentries save the two by the Gate of Sand, and hid them among the stones and bushes, all within an easy rifle-shot of the entrance to the water-cavern.
Some few minutes later the echoes of a rifle-shot, unmistakable alike for that of shot-gun or revolver, circled the belt of hills that looks on Ancester Towers, and died at Grantley Thorpe. Old Stephen, when he reappeared at the Lodge half an hour later, could explain his share in this with only a mixed satisfaction.
It was six o'clock before breakfast was over and they were ready to begin their day's journey. As they were throwing the hitch over the last pack, MacDonald said in a low voice to Aldous: "Everything may happen to-day, Johnny. I figger we'll reach the end by sundown. An' what don't happen there may happen along the trail. Keep a rifle-shot behind with Joanne.
Once clear of the shadows, I seemed to overcome the forebodings of danger, that had so oppressed me in the cañon; and, in a few moments, the unpleasant sensations produced by the echo, entirely disappeared. While thus riding along, the sound of a rifle-shot, a long distance away, fell upon our ears. "That's them boys, for sartin," said Jerry.
And then all unexpectedly and from an unexpected quarter, came the first rifle-shot. The first shot and the second, close together. The bullets passed between grandfather and grandson, kicking up little puffs of dust beyond them. Neither looked to see whence the shots came. The thought was in each mind: "Is this a Packard I am dealing with?
"Forrest," he began, "if you have done " But Dick hushed him with a warning glance directed toward Oh Dear who still held the bronze spurs in speechless helplessness. "It can be discussed later," Dick said shortly, as he turned his mouth to the transmitter. "Doctor Robinson?... Good. Mrs. Forrest has a rifle-shot through lungs or heart or maybe both.
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