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Updated: June 14, 2025
If he sent the old man in, then there was Hope, if the superannuated, short-stocked Martini, with that steady old finger on the trigger, and that sharp old eye at the backsight, ended by accounting for Saxham, then there would be an end to this burning torment for ever. Strangely, he did not believe that he could be killed by any other hand than Father Noah's.
One vast, wide field of snow and ice spread out in every direction, and made desolation complete. When the man re-appeared he was armed with a sturdy "gee-pole," and at his belt was coiled a heavy-thonged, short-stocked driving whip. Without a word he thrust the pole under the front of the sled runners, and a sharp command broke from his lips. The effect was instantaneous.
He watched them leap to their feet and stand ready, great, powerful, untamed souls eager for their, task. Then the man in the sled looked round as he strung out the long lash of his short-stocked whip. "So long, Bat," he cried smilingly. And his farewell was instantly followed by the sharp command to "mush." Far out on the desolate highlands the dogs broke trail over a waste of virgin snow.
Probably they did not belong to a tribe that had taken part in any of the numerous routs, assaults on strong places, and massacres, which had supplied so large a portion of the Mahdi's troops with modern arms of precision, for those of them who carried guns had those long-barrelled, short-stocked weapons, which are familiar to us in pictures, and which are so admirable from an artistic, and so worthless from the Wimbledonian, point of view.
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