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"See here," said Hol to the wooden hatchway "We were hardly quick enough with our pistols" There, sure enough, just behind where we had been standing, stuck one of those murderous darts which we kneell It must have whizzed between us at the instant that we fired Holed his shoulders in his easy fashion, but I confess that it turned me sick to think of the horrible death which had passed so close to us that night