Had they been anything but the villains they were I could have pitied them, they looked so miserable.
"`Hold my horse,' said I, dismounting, `while I go and reconnoitre.

I know every inch of the ground.

Keep in the dark, whatever you do, under the hedge there.

So.

Are you loaded ?' "`I am,' said Tom, sullenly taking out his pistol.
"`So am I,' said the other.
"`Give me one of the pistols,' I said, as coolly as I could.