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THE SIXTH SHOT
(Continued from Page 9.) shot; it may go off the second-it The old man smiled with the cyni-may go off the sixth. An' you don't know, Bud; an' you don't know, cism of age and experience. The
Nank; an' I don't know. Only God girl liked Bud and was disappoint A'mighty knowa, an' He ain't likely ed; he wouldn't have let anybody to meddle." Ielso call him that.
He dropped the pistol into his coat: Her face was white now, and the pocket and looked at the two men. was sobbing, when they dragged her. He waited a moment, then went on: back into the bouse. Not once had she looked at Nank, who stood in front of the crowd, cool and steady, but watchful. Old Bill knew; she might as well have said: "I love (you, Bud!"
It would have meant the same thing.
"Hit goes by the toss of a coin. The man that gits the first toss gita the first shot. The man that gita the second toss gits the second shot an so on till the hammer comes to what the ca'tridge be. Bud Campbell, this here's your gun; you might have settled things here an' now, settled 'em your own way, an' you didn't Speak up. Bud Camp. bell-heads or tails?**
But Bud didn't know. had heard him gasp as if the girl had struck him in the face. Bud I was
didn't young, you see, and understand. The world had ceased to exist for him.
"I look out for these two fel- lers," he said to the crowd. "Y live down below what they live, au' I'll see 'em home."
Some of the frolickers, strange-
A moment Bud stood staring at him-then be spoke:
"Talle."
"So be it, amen!" said old BIII. He took a quarter out of his pocket| and held it up.
"Betwixt each shot I spin
this
ly quiet now, went part of the way two-bit piece. If it falls tails. It's with them, thes at the crossroads Bud shot; If it falls heads. It's turned off down the mountain, their Nank's. talk and laughter beginning again;
"That's the rule
الم
the way as they passed out of sight. Silent through. I may have to spin it one ly along the ridge road tudged the time; I may have to spin it two three, the old man walking between times; I may have to spin it Atx Bud and Nank. his hands in his times. Nobody but God Almighty coat pockets, hin pipe in his mouth, knows; an He ain't goin' to meddle.” this mind running ahead to that
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whirls round the sun.
Bud was bareheaded he had for gotten his hat and he walked now, head thrown back, swinging along in the moonlight.
hammer, he tossed the coin like the expert he was, then got down on his knees in the road and struck match above it.
From LEITH, MIDDLESERO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
"BENREOCH"
Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- Aformed that all Goods are being land- ed at their risk into the hazardous
He handed the gun to the man and/or extra hazardous Godowns of and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf
"It's
a pretty night," he said who had won the toss, watched him after a while in a queer, loud way, take his stand at one rock, watched
and threw back his head and laugh the man who had lost take his stand from the wharvee delivery may be ob
cd.
at the other, then stepped to the Suddenly Bud stopped in the edge of the road, hands in his coat road, and Nank stopped, and the old pockets. man stopped, very watchful.
tained.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after pipe in his mouth.
the 31st October, 1933, will be subject "Ready?" he asked each time, and to rent. "I said," yelled Bud, "this here's waited for the response of the man a mighty pretty night. What do who faced the gun. When it came, you say. Nank Morgan? Is this here he took his pipe out of his mouth. a pretty night, or ain't It"
Still Nank did not speak, only looked at Bud quickly, viciously. hir face white, his eyen blazing. "Come on." said old dryły
Од snow.
"Shoot!" he said, then put his pipe into his mouth again.
All claims against the steamer must
be presented to the Undersigned on
or before the 14th November, 1933, of they will not be recognised.
Bill of Lading will be countersign-
To comply with the General Bond ed Warehouse Regulations consignees The night was cold, and his old must have a Revenue Officer in attend- blood was this, but the cold didn'ince when damaged dutiable goods
are examined. Bill touch him now. As the cylinder All broken, chafed, and damaged brought the cartridge closer to the Goods are to be left in the Godown. In silence the rest of the Way hammer, and the chances of pro-where they will be examined on the 30th October, 1933, at 10 a.m. by the they came out into
flattened longing the game grew narrower, Mesara, Goddard & Douglas. field at the very top of the mountain his movements became even more No Fire Inerrance has been affect. range, where the moon was bright deliberate, though his eyes shone ad, as if it were shining
ever brighter, and his hands trem- Halfway across the field Bud stop bled a bit now as he stooped overed by |ped in the road, and Nank stopped, the coin and struck a match. He
and old Bill.
little spun the coin each time "This here's mighty pleasant now. higher up in the moonlight; he held ain't it?" ancered Bud, "this here the match longer above it; he exn- |walkin' together in the moonshine!"mined the silver verdict closer,
His hand darted to his hip pocket "Say, but this here's fun, ain't and swept his coat backward. "Git it?" said Bud a little wildly on the Steamer, out of the way, old man MeCorcle!" fourth shot a shot that came to he yelled. "Draw, Nank Morgan!" Nank.
Nank threw away his cigarette:
"I ain't got nothin' to draw," be İsaid. "got out of the habit of
totin' it in town."
"Then, by God, borrow!" yelled Bud.
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CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby "Ready an' waitin!" cried Bud.
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No claims will be admitted after 18th Nov. out of the habit of totin' mine. Hit
usual, his face a little paler. But wore my britches pocket out.
Bud was breathing deep, and film the Goods have left the Godown, and ol' woman had to keep on patchin' voice was hoarse when he spoke.
all Goods remaining undelivered, after the 30th instant, will be subject to em. Things ain't like they used to
"Nark Morgan," he said, "you got rent. was," he said in his sorrow,
Then out of the vast storehouse one chance out of six to live; you of his knowledge it came and the got five chances out of six to die.
Is thar anything?: Your ma or gleam of authority shone once more
tars or anybody?" in his eyes.
"That's a way," he said, slowly. 7th Nov. "Hit's been done."
7th Doc.
"Ready?" broke in old Bill And like an echo came the voice
[not
All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or sis-before the 9th prozima, or they will
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"All right,” said Bud, grimly, "so
"Then speak up!" said Bud, his of Nank: "Ready!" face close to the old man's face, his] breath hot. "It's got to be to-night, be it,"
He raised the gun; he took care lan' it ain't no fist fight. It's me, or
him!"
ful and deadly aim-and on his face "Speak, up, old man," said Nank came a sudden, and terrible eager- ed.
ness. This was the last shot but Bill of Lading will be countersign. 6th Now. "Spit it out."
If the gun missed Are this ed by, chung magh he
DODWELL & CO, LTD. "That's a way," repeated old Bill, one.
Agents. unmindful of the Interruption. time, it meant for a certainty that
Hong Kong, 24th October, 1938. "Yes, hit's been done. Here the cartridge lay ready for the next 4th Nov.
shot. He could pull the trigger 19th Nov. gimme that gun, Bud,”
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He unbreeched the revolver. heavy old sixshooter, the nickel worn
once more right quick;'old Bill wa
little deaf and wouldn't hear the strate beside the road, a white cid lat Nov. off in spots.
first click; nobody would ever know skeleton of an affair. He sat down —and Nank would tumble yonder on it, his chest rising and falling "Hit's a ol' gun," he said. "Oh, it's good enough, I reckon," in the road, and he would go home and mopped the sweat from H
"It was Pa's this night and to Phobe Abernathy race. He rose like a tired
man 8th Nov, sald Bud, proudly,
when Nank came toward them and gun-him that died fightin' four to-morrow, conqueror,
"'"Shoot!". tried old Bill quickly.looked his enemy quickly and sehr-i men an' brought down two of em.7
[chingly in the eyes, He saw the 29th Oct "I know," said old Bill, reverently, his eyes blazing...
Bud, pulled the trigger; the gun grim: approval there, the touch of 12th Nov.1 war thar," ","
He emptied the cartridges out of clicked; a moment it remained lovel gratitude, of friendliness, of com 2nd New. the cylinder and held them out in while the sweat started to Bud radeship He thought for a mo- his hand, "Be thar aix?" he asked. Campbell's face in great dads and ment of the nights when he and Then, here goes Ave!" And he threw his hair rose on his head, and every fant used to go Trolicking together. the five away far into the field muscle in his big body quivered. Bank had seen his straggle: Nank and Bad lasew the temptation that had al- "An here to one back in the gun, Then the gun İbe said, and aboved or the solitary stood
cartridge Into a chambar
MeCore
overwhelmed him to pull the trigger Just once more, to end this Tthing, to keep his own life."
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