For, at his first word, the girl had checked her run and had stood for an instant, gazing wideeyed at him.

Then, clapping one little hand to her side, she produced from somewhere a flash of metal.
And Gavin Brice found himself blinking stupidly into the muzzle of a small revolver, held, unwaveringly, not three feet from his face.

Behind the gun were a pair of steady gray eyes and a face whose dainty outlines were just now set in a mask of icy grimness.
"That isn't a bluff," ran his involuntary thoughts, as he read the eyes behind the ridiculously tiny weapon.

"She really means to shoot!".