In Sight of St. Paul's — page 224: what you’re looking at

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WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN, 219 “Ves! Don’t I speak plainly? Give me one of those!’? She pointed suddenly at the pistols, which the Panther still held in her grasp, while the women who were witnesses of the scene held their breath in suspense. Cynthia, with more amazement than anything else upon her face, involuntarily drew away the weapons. “First ee | ‘‘Ask me no questions!’’? interrupted Beatrice, fiercely, flushed with wine and indignation. ‘‘I will not tell you my reasons! ‘They are in my. heart! Give me one, I say!’’ And; with a sudden, quick movement, she wrenched one of the pistols from Cynthia’s grasp. ‘Ah!’ with a cry of exultation and a swift wave of her hand toward Aileen’s unconscious form, ‘‘you wanted to kill this child! Well, I take her place. Kull meif you can!”? The other cuests were now thoroughly frightened. Some of them began to wring their hands, sobbing and shrieking impotently, while others, more clear- headed, started forward to prevent the impending tragedy. One of them caught from behind the hand of Bea- trice which held the pistol. | Beatrice, feeling the grasp, gave her arm a wrench to free herself. As she did so the pistol exploded, Gomicbooks (e(0) m