"Shut up, you scoundrel! Buck-and-gag him, men," roared Billings, rising and shaking his fist at him."But you hain't got me. You've lost me," screamed Pete Skidmore, dismayed at being separated from Sandy Baker. Shorty's gun clicked again."I never saw a man who was achin' for a good lickin' like that old bluffer. And he'll git it jest as soon as he's out o' the service, if I have to walk a hundred miles to give it to him."
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They could not realize that the battlecloud had rolled away just as suddenly as it had burst upon them, and they stood there tightly grasping their reloaded guns, and staring fixedly into the distance for the next horrid development."I'm afraid we can't," Rogier put in, almost apologetically.He thought he read her look correctly. "I don't like it either," he told her earnestly. "But somebody has to do it. I think"