They are chiefly used against the mosquitoes." "Oh, they will kill at twenty-five paces," continued the Commissaire; and he looked quickly at Hillyard.

"I will tell you something.

You ran some risk last night when you explored that water-tank.

Yes, indeed! It would have been so easy.

The attendant had but to thrust the muzzle of this through the opening of the window, shoot you dead, raise an alarm that he had caught you hiding something, and there was he a hero and you a traitor.