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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Now I'll show you the difference!" yelled Tom, though such was the noise that not a word could be heard. "This shows you what my silencer will do." Tom pulled another lever. There was at once a cessation of the deafening racket, though it was not altogether ended. Then, after a moment or two, there suddenly came a roar as though a blast had been let off in the shop.
The party in power kept a special Maxim silencer on the subject of Oriental immigration. The politician in office kept one finger on his lip and wore rubber-soled shoes whenever an almond-eyed was mentioned. With that beautiful consistency which only a politician has, a good British Columbia member, who rode Oriental exclusion as his special hobbyhorse, employed a Jap cook.
This curious sheath" he pointed to a cylindrical jacket around part of the rifle barrel "is a Coulomb silencer, which reduces a small-arm report almost to a whisper. Here is an electric button which was connected with yonder battery before I operated on it with the chair, and distributed its spark, part to the gun, part to the flash-light powder on this little shelf. Do you see the plan now?
"Not so fast, young man," remarked Robin. "Let's first find out whether Mary actually heard the muffled shot and, if so, when ... before or after the loud report." He glanced across at the window and then at Bruce, "I suppose this discovery about the silencer is responsible for the deputation waiting in the courtyard," he said drily.
Dundee laughed, as he rose and started for his own office. "And don't you dare leave the room when you become dummy, if you have the nerve to play again! Remember, that gun and silencer are still missing!" "What do you mean?.... You don't think there'll be more ?" Dundee became instantly contrite before her terror. "I didn't mean it, honey," he said gently.
Penny told him fiercely, when he had finished. "I suppose you are going to ask me to believe that Tracey was a big enough fool to leave the gun and silencer where Flora could get hold of it and kill Sprague last night." "Why not let us suppose that Tracey himself killed Sprague to protect his wife, not only from scandal, but from a charge of murder?" Dundee countered.
Accompanied by Captain Strawn, the ex-judge went to the telephone in the little foyer between Nita Selim's bedroom and the main hall. And within five minutes he was back, nodding his head gravely. "Hinson tells me that the Colt's and the silencer are both missing, sir.... May I express my profound regret that my possession of " "Some other time, Judge Marshall!"
He had matters now where he did not fear any tampering with his plans, for he had filed away his papers in a safe place, and was making his new machine from memory. "But if some one got in and had a look at the inside of your silencer he could see how it is constructed, couldn't he?" asked Ned Newton. "Yes," assented Tom, "But they're not going to get in very easily.
Once the public understands the question, and the governments mean business, the way of the transgressor will be so hard between the wardens, zoologists and all the preventive machinery of modern administration that it will no longer pay him to walk in it. Special precautions must be taken against that vilest of all inventions of diabolical ingenuity the Maxim "silencer."
The solid fuel burned at so many inches per second. The refractory crumbled away and was hurled astern at a corresponding rate save for one small point. The refractory was not all exactly alike. Some parts of it crumbled away faster, leaving a pattern of baffles which acted like a maxim silencer on a rifle, or like an automobile muffler.
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