Part 7 (2/2)
Cora ran to it, looked down, saw the figure on the ground beneath, and fired again, but not at the man
With a cry the fellow jumped up, and as he hurried away Cora saw that he limped She ive a word to the three frightened girls ere screa for help Nettie had run down fro to die, and Bess was doing her best to alow hear her cries
”Did you kill hiasped Belle, when Cora finally returned to the bedroouess I hurt him a little He li him, but just as I fired toward thehe darted into it I could not help it He should have surrendered”
Cora was as pale as death Her black hair fell in a cloud about her shoulders She sank into a chair and still held the s weapon
”Put that down!” coht come back,” murmured Cora ”There is no reason for you to fear, it is not cocked,” and she held up the revolver to prove her words
”Oh, do put it down!” begged Belle
”Seelar,”
remarked Cora ”Do you realize that a man has just jumped out of the ?”
”Of course we do,” wailed Bess, ”but we don't want any s to happen, and it's always the perfectly safe, unloaded guns that shoot people”
”Oh, I'll put it away, if you feel so about it,” and Cora stepped over to the dresser as she spoke ”I really hope I have not hurt the et away,” declared Nettie ”But I just wish you had! The idea of aaround here!
Likely he's taken the silver I didn't bring it up last night!”
”Well, that was not your fault, Nettie,” Bess said ”We had so ht you are not responsible Besides, you wanted to go down for it, and I said not to bother But I hope he didn't take grandested Cora
”Oh, mercy, no!” cried Belle, who all the time continued to shi+ver under the bed clothes ”Let the old silver go--grandma's spoons and all the rest We one,” declared Cora ”I saw hiht be anotherabout such persons or their doings?”
”Again I'll agree, if it makes you feel better,” replied Cora ”But, you see, e, so that I alanced at her watch on the dresser the other girls could not help ade
”What time is it?” asked Nettie
”The mystic hour--e are supposed to be farthest from earth,”
replied Cora ”Just two”
”There is no use in trying to sleep any et up and dress”
”And look like valentines in theto bed,” and Cora deliberately dropped herself down beside Belle
”Oh, Nettie will keep guard,” said Bess, apparently disappointed that Cora should give up her part of the ”guarding”
”Strange, the neighbors did not hear the shots,” the ht have had to entertain peopledown stairs I ry----”