Excerpt: ...Not even the bloodstained Seventh Regiment had the effrontery to ask their victim to admit them. There was a momentary quieting of their wild beast fury when the door resisted their utmost efforts. Joan tried to persuade her tortured mind that the conspiracy had failed. "They will not dare to remain," she whispered. "They know that assistance may arrive at any moment. Listen, they are going now!" "Are you gentlemen armed?" asked Felix, grimly. "Yes, with riding whips," said Alec. "For my part, I have refused to ...
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Excerpt: ...Not even the bloodstained Seventh Regiment had the effrontery to ask their victim to admit them. There was a momentary quieting of their wild beast fury when the door resisted their utmost efforts. Joan tried to persuade her tortured mind that the conspiracy had failed. "They will not dare to remain," she whispered. "They know that assistance may arrive at any moment. Listen, they are going now!" "Are you gentlemen armed?" asked Felix, grimly. "Yes, with riding whips," said Alec. "For my part, I have refused to carry any more dangerous weapon; though it is true that I entered Delgratz with a sword in my hand," he added, remembering with a twinge his imagining of Joan's ready laugh when she heard of Prince Michael's brown paper parcel. "Pity you don't possess a revolver apiece. They would prove useful when the panels are broken, which will happen just as soon as these high spirited politicians on the landing secure axes," went on Felix remorselessly. He wanted Joan to realize the certain fate that Pg 162 awaited her once the door gave way. Concealment was useless, and he hoped she would faint before the end came. "What price the leg of a chair?" asked Beaumanoir. The Pole bent his gleaming gray eyes on the Briton with a curious underlook of inquiry. "No, no. We can do better than that. You would be shot before you could strike a blow. Joan, please crawl past the window and stand upright in the corner close to the wall. You follow, Alec. I go next, and this young gentleman, who must be Lord Adalbert Beaumanoir, since he has all the outward signs of the British aristocracy, will place himself near the door. If he does exactly what I tell him, we still have a fighting chance." The change of position advised by Poluski rendered them safe from their assailants' bullets until the door was actually off its hinges and the furniture thrust aside. In the last resort, Alec meant to show himself at a window and offer a fair target to the men in the houses...
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