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The rock where he crouched lay at theone ofto look towards these scattered rocks (and for no reason in the world) I saw a thing that heldin itself, a sharp, glittering thing that seeht in a fissure of one of those rocks, and I knew it for a steel hook; but even as I stared at it, the thing was gone and so noiselessly that I half-doubted if I had seen it or no But, out frolittering as it flew, and Red Andy, starting up fro and ca forward so that I could see his chin and breast bedabbled with the blood that spurted fro mouth All at once he sank to his knees and thence to his face, spreading his ar back froht betwixt his shoulder-blades And thus I saw again the silver haft of the dagger that was shaped like to a wo, ere it grew terribly still

Then ca, turned up the dead face to thehook And nohipping out his dagger, he bent to wipe it on the dead man's shirt, but checked suddenly as a pebble started beneath lared up beneath thick brows as I rose up with pistol levelled and the ht uponcry: "Black Bartleer upon the sand; and so we stood staring on each other and with the deadbetwixt us