If I hadn't happened to be bringing the monkey-wrench from the garage to fix that shelf-bolt in the study, I'd never have been able to get even one of them.

I yanked free of them, while they were trying to down me, and I let this one have it with the wrench.
Before I could land on the other--" "Milo!" she broke in, after several vain attempts to still his vainglorious recital.

"Milo! You've injured--maybe you've killed--the man who saved you from being stabbed to death! Yet you--" "What are you talking about ?" he demanded, bewildered.

"These two men set on me in the dark, as I was coming from--" "This man, here--Mr.Brice--" she flamed, "has saved you from being killed.

Oh, go and telephone for a doctor! Quickly! And send one of the maids out here with my smelling salts.
He--" "Thanks!" returned her brother, making no move to obey.