Mr.Gilchrist and I take watch and watch.' The game was up.

'_Beaucoup de plaisir_!' I replied, in the same tones.
'_Il fait un peu froid pour veiller_; _gardez-vous des engelures_!' I suppose it was done in a moment of ungovernable rage; but in spite of the excellent advice he had given to Ronald the moment before, Chevenix slipped the chain, and the dog sprang, straight as an arrow, up the bank.
I stepped back, picked up a stone of about twelve pounds weight, and stood ready.

With a bound the beast landed on the cope-stone of the wall; and, almost in the same instant, my missile caught him fair in the face.

He gave a stifled cry, went tumbling back where he had come from, and I could hear the twelve-pounder accompany him in his fall.

Chevenix, at the same moment, broke out in a roaring voice: 'The hell-hound! If he's killed my dog!' and I judged, upon all grounds, it was as well to be off..