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"Coly, "suppose you try your spells upon me? You will never have a better chance than now to show your power," and again heknife The ht into the entrance of the cave and over the head and shoulders of the Indian Its cold light shily toward ency one has frequently an inspiration --instantaneous, disconnected, unbidden--which no aest Such extraordinary flashes are the result of reasoning too rapid for consciousness to note The Indian had already laid bare his right arm to the elbow before I had determined upon the desperate course I would pursue, and upon which I e, white sola hat from my head, and hurled it full in his face It was a schoolboy trick, yet upon its success depended ed, closed his eyes, and raised his right hand, knife and all, to shield his face I sprang upon him at the same instant I threw my hat, and so was able to reach him before he opened his eyes I had well calculated his movements, and had made no mistake As I reached him his head was bent doard and forward to let the hat pass over him His position could not have been better for y hiion of the carotid artery The bloell placed, and desperation lent th It raised him bodily off his feet, and hurled him backward out of the cave, where he lay motionless He was now in my power I seized his knife and bent over hi I felt for hiht of my happiness he had ever stood, an iht e his weapon into his heart Would it not be just, I thought, to drag him into the cave, and hurl him down the abyss he had intended for me? Yes; he certainly merited it; yet I could not do that either I wished the snake a thousand times dead, yet I could not stamp it into the earth