It reached down twenty-two feet--half way to the ground.
I then loaded every barrel of the Allen with a double charge.

I felt satisfied.

I said to myself, if he never thinks of that one thing that I dread, all right--but if he does, all right anyhow--I am fixed for him.
But don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
Indeed it is so.

I watched the bull, now, with anxiety -- anxiety which no one can conceive of who has not been in such a situation and felt that at any moment death might come.

Presently a thought came into the bull's eye.