The Clockwork man nodded quickly, as though recollecting something. Then he moved his right hand spasmodically upwards and inserted it between the lapels of his jacket, somewhere in the region of his waistcoat. He appeared to be trying to find something. Presently he found what it was he looked for, and his hand moved again with a sharp, deliberate action. The noise stopped at once. "The silencer," he explained, "I forgot to put it on. It was such a relief to be working[Pg 17] again. I must have nearly stopped altogether. Very awkward. Very awkward, indeed." The turn things took now was not quite to my liking, and I did not feel very safe when I handed him my scribbling-pad. ¡°How about this-here?¡± he asked. ¡°How does this fit in?¡± ¡°What?¡± "I'm goin' to stop him killin' mules," he said to himself. "I rayly hope I won't kill him, but that's a secondary matter. Providence'll settle that. It's my duty to stop him. That's clear. If his time's come Providence'll put the bullet where it'll kill him. If it ain't, it won't. That's all. Providence indicates my duty to me. The responsibility for the rest is with Providence, who doeth all things well." "There's rebels over there, sure as you're born,"' murmured Jim to them, without turning his head to relax his fixed gaze nor taking his finger from the trigger of his cocked gun. "Wish they'd fire a gun first to convince that old terror of a Corpril, who thinks he kin tell where rebels is just by the smell. I'd¡ª" "Shorty, I know where your boys are. What'll you give me to tell you?" Groundhog wavered an instant. "I wuz offered $10 on the other side." "Silence in ranks," commanded Si. "Each rank will count twos." "Poor little thing!" HoMEéÙÀæÉ´co.jp
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