There is no native in all India to be more dreaded than he." "I have a faint hope that it was he with whom I made my fourth bull's-eye," remarked Jack.
"Hardly likely.

Probably there were two others skulking on the outside and waiting for a chance at us." "But they had all the chance they could have asked at _me_." "It may have been the doctor and his daughter whom they were the most eager to secure," suggested Mr.Turner.
"That is my belief," added Anderson.
"And mine, too," joined the doctor himself.

"It seems to be a trait of our perverse human nature to hate with the deepest intensity those who have done us the greatest kindness." This remark meant more to Jack Everson than to any one else, for he believed that it was the daughter who was the special object of the natives.

That reminded him of the weapon he had secured.
"Here," he said, "take it before I forget to return it." "You risked a good deal for my sake," she said gratefully, accepting the weapon, "and I cannot thank you sufficiently---- Well, I declare!" She was in the act of placing the pistol in the pocket of her dress when she made the discovery that her weapon was already there.

Jack Everson had taken Mustad's own property from him..