You say you don't know where he is, and that may be true enough in a sense; but I have asked you whether he is coming back again, and you won't answer me.

I just give you three seconds;" and he held out his arm with a pistol in it.

"One!" As the word "Two" left his lips, a pistol cracked and Mullens fell back with a bullet in his forehead.
At the same time Vincent shouted at the top of his voice, "Come on, boys; wipe 'em out altogether! Don't let one of them escape!" As he spoke he discharged his pistol rapidly into the midst of the men, who were for the moment too taken by surprise to move, and every shot took effect upon them.

At the same moment there was a great shouting outside, and the trampling of horses' feet.

One or two of the men hastily returned Vincent's fire, but the rest made a violent rush to the door.
Several fell over the bodies of their comrades, and Vincent had emptied one of his revolvers and fired three shots with the second before the last of those able to escape did so.