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"Not as it'll be much use again' a ghost," said he, with a gloomy shake of the head, "but a pistol's a comfortable thing to 'ave in a lonely place 'specially if that place be very dark." Which last, if something illogical, may be none the less true. So, having shaken each by the hand, I bade them good night, and set off along the darkening road.
My design was simply to proceed thither, "impress" a fresh horse at the pistol's muzzle; throw my saddle upon him; leave my own animal, and proceed on my way. Pushing across the fields, and dismounting to let down the fences which my limping animal could not leap, I soon approached the light.
All his will was flowing out along a pistol's sight, even as his blood was flowing out on the sand in a broadening circle of red. It was well that she had come. Her fingers were splashed as she felt for the artery, which she closed by leaning her whole weight on the thumb.
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