He was loudly called on, to surrender.

He ran the harder, and in a few seconds would have been out of gunshot.

The word was given, and the men fired.
There was a breathless pause and a profound silence, during which all eyes were fixed upon him.

He had been seen to start at the discharge, as if the report had frightened him.

But he neither stopped nor slackened his pace in the least, and ran on full forty yards further.