When London Sleeps — page 212: what you’re looking at

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open one of the drawers, and snatched up a revolver which lay there. It was one that had been given her that very morning by David, but she had forgotten it until that moment. Haynes, with convulsed face, was again adyancing toward her, but she leveled the weapon at his head, and brought him to a standstill. “You thought I was entirely friendless!’’? she cried, with a wild burst of hysterical laughter, ‘You see, you were wrong!’ For an instant. Haynes was nonplussed. He did not know what todonext. Finally, after a short reflection, he said, and really believing it as well: “What's a revolver in the hands of a woman? You wouldn’t know how to fire it.”’ But here, to his cost, he was entirely mistaken. “Wouldn’t I??? cried Queenie, with flashing eyes, ready now to do anything, everything to protect herself. ‘‘See!’? 3 A sharp report rang out. Haynes uttered a cry of pain as his left arm fell powerless to his side. Queenie’s nearest and dearest would not have recognized her at that moment. She was no longer the gentle, clinging girl, but a determined woman, resolved to defend herself and her honor at all costs. ‘““You seem to forget,’’ she exclaimed, with savage exultation, ‘Show many I have fired “on the slack- wire in the circus! I winged your left arm so that your right should be free to unlock that door! There we (Ny +o” he ier: . 4 Poa FE Ane? vi , ers > Sen ne mee as Fes « “an par e, : Saas eS : as We rhe en eee > is | fo us Aa sales pe, 2g es GA EAL Foi’ , ee re ” 7 Ai, aay < es ey een bee hh : f ; 4.” ; “S4 ehtjes y ee. - oe s, . . FOR DEAR LIFES S4KE. = == 207 are five more chambers loaded. Now, go, while you 3 : are safe !”? Once again she covered hini with the revolver, @ cComicboo cS. 9 tah . ‘, . : Cc - = [Sy 7 Te : ee Pay se Me 1a AA . >i *