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She ran close to him and laid her hands on his arm. Her eyes were fixed steadily on his. "Because," she whispered, "the man who shot that girl-is your brother-in-law, Ham Cutler!" For what seemed a long time Wharton stood looking down into the eyes of the woman, and the eyes never faltered.
"Now," exclaimed Van Graoul triumphantly, "we shall see directly; and if I mistake not, we shall not be far astern of her." Soon after he spoke we shot past a thickly-wooded point, and emerged into open, lake-like expanse. I saw his countenance fall. The stranger was nowhere to be seen.
Almost without realizing the act, Hamlin lifted the heavy body, laid it down upon the cushion, and unclasped the dead fingers gripping the Winchester stock. "Every shot gone," he whispered to himself dazedly, "every shot gone! Ain't that hell!" Then it came to him in a sudden flash of intelligence he was alone; alone except for the girl.
It again passed us, and reached Aden before we did. The 'Porcupine' lay not far from the 'Fulvia', and as I leaned over the bulwarks, idly looking at her, a boat shot away from her side, and came towards us. As it drew near, I saw that it was filled with luggage a naval officer's, I knew it to be.
"Now it is my turn, old lady," ejaculated Higgs, and straightway missed her clean from a distance of five yards. A second shot was more successful, and she rolled over, dead. "Come on," said the exultant Professor, "and we'll skin her. She sat on me, and I mean to sit on her for many a day."
Mackshane's malice I am taken up and imprisoned for a spy Morgan meets with the same fate Thompson is tampered with to turn evidence against us disdains the proposal, and is maltreated for his integrity Morgan is released to assist the Surgeon during an engagement with some French ships-of-war I remain fettered on the poop, exposed to the enemy's shot, and grow delirious with fear am comforted after the battle by Morgan, who speaks freely of the captain, is overheard by the sentinel, who informs against him, and again imprisoned Thompson grows desperate, and, notwithstanding the remonstrances of Morgan and me, goes overboard in the night
I could not but notice the mechanical exactness of his mind, as when he showed me where he had stood, or drew, as a matter of course, the revolver from his pistol pocket, and pointed with it. The chair from which I had risen still stood in its place. Then I asked him to point with his hand only, as I wished to move in the track of his shot.
The Prince rode away to his hunting-lodge at three leagues from X , and three days after that Maxime de Magny died in prison; having made a confession that he was engaged in an attempt to rob the Jew, and that he had made away with himself, ashamed of his dishonour. 'But it is not known that it was the General himself who took his grandson poison: it was said even that he shot him in the prison.
What men this Vendean war brings face to face. on one side Santerre the brewer; on the other Gaston the hairdresser!" "My dear La Vieuville, I feel some respect for this Gaston. He behaved well in his command of Guéménée. He had three hundred Blues neatly shot after making them dig their own graves." "Well enough done; but I could have done quite as well as he." "Pardieu, to be sure; and I too."
One day a soldier of the guard wickedly shot him through the back. The wound was mortal, but the old chief gave not a twinge; his seamed face remained as stern and firm as if of stone. He had resolved that his enemies should see in him a man. Only when, toward the end, he heard a murmur and scuff of feet around him, did he arouse. He asked his nurses to lift his eyelids for him. This was done.
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