Virginia did not hesitate.

She pulled the trigger of her revolver, and a bullet whistled only a few inches from his head.

He sprang upright in a minute.
"Damn the girl!" he said.

"Higgins, take that thing away from her." But Virginia was standing with her back to the wall, and Higgins, after one look into her face, shook his head.
"Don't be a fool, Weiss," he said.

"This sort of thing won't do.