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Cherry waited till the deal was over, when he got to the Forest Queen; and then he asked Santa Fé Charley if he'd let him speak to the boys for a minute before the game went on. He was always polite and obliging, Santa Fé was, and he said of course he might; and he rapped on the table with his derringer for order, and said Mr. Cherry had the floor.
Then, without a word, he handed a new revolver to Thomas Braddock. It was not the small derringer he was wont to carry. Braddock seemed surprised by the boy's readiness. He received the weapon gingerly. A sudden spasm shook his big frame. "Is is it loaded?" he inquired, less lugubrious than he had been before. "No," said Ernie shortly. Braddock's chest swelled suddenly.
With reluctance the woman drew a bundle of keys from her pocket and flung them to the floor behind her, and close to the door that stood ajar. "Don't be so spiteful. Now, then, go to that corner. Move quickly!" The girl still threatened her keeper with the cocked derringer, and she crossed the floor with a growl that was not pleasant to hear. "There, that is about right."
He then turned over the corpse, and thrusting his hand into the inner breast-pocket, dragged out a roll of MSS., matted closely together and stained by the winter's rains. A further search eventuated in finding a roll of small gold coin, a set of derringer pistols, a rusted double-edged dirk, and a pair of silver-mounted spectacles.
I stopped the boy without difficulty, and made him tell what he was up to. He said the niggers were having a meeting at Mechanics' Institute to take away his vote. When asked how long he had enjoyed that inestimable right of a freeman, the boy gave it up, pocketed his "Derringer," and walked off.
Randall approved his decision. "You see the necessity. You can't. But a derringer is about as good, and Jones has them for sale. Now as for your holster gun: the whole trick of quick drawing is to throw your right shoulder forward and drag the gun from the holster with one forward sweep. Don't lift it up and out. This way!" He snapped his hand past his hip and brought it away armed.
"I'm a very good golfer." said the earl, "but I thought a derringer was a kind of dish that babies ate gruel out of." He blushed becomingly. "As ever," said Alice, "insular and ignorant." "You prickly baby!" exclaimed the earl. "What is a derringer, Mr. Forrest?" Forrest, having succeeded in drawing the attention of his immediate and prospective family from the ill looks of Mr.
At this moment you are covered." "Yes?" mocked The Kid. "Come in, major!" cried Don Floristo. A door at one end of the room, which had been standing half ajar, now opened. Framed in the doorway was the bloated, fat figure of Major Stover. In his hand was a derringer. Its twin black muzzles were leveled at Kiel Wolf's heart.
There was no reply, and Gentleman John went to one corner of his room, scratched a sulphur match, and with its sputtering flame he lighted a small lamp by his bedside. Then he slyly drew a derringer from under his pillow. Again he went to the door, putting his hand on the knob. "José! Come here!" he cried, with an oath.
Sandy went in search, and presently returned with the prize, a short, big-barrelled, powerful little weapon of the bull-dog type, sending a bullet like that of a Derringer, hot and hard, warranted to shock and stop an ox at ten yards, but miss a barn at over twenty: a woman's weapon for defence of her life, not a target pistol, and Sandy twirled the shining cylinder approvingly.
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