"Mr.Reade, in my stupor from being aroused I was just on the point of shooting you for a burglar.

It's awful!" "You ought to throw that revolver to the bottom of the gulf," Tom rasped out.
"Not much!" retorted the superintendent.

"Handling as mixed a crew as we have on this work I wouldn't think of going about unarmed.

And you ought to go armed, too, Mr.Reade." "Bosh!" uttered Tom.

He had a well-known objection to carrying a pistol.
Reade always maintained that a pistol-carrying man was a coward.