Braddock.
"No! No! Take them away!" she cried. "That's all I ask of you!"
"Wait!" said Colonel Grand, master of himself once more. "We may just
as well understand each other. I had an object in coming here. It
concerns this man. He--"
David broke in peremptorily. It was time to bring the distressing
scene to an end, if it were possible to do so without inviting the
actual catastrophe. He realized that he would have to act quickly in
order to anticipate the curious crowd and to be ahead of the police.
"Colonel Grand, you have put yourself in an unpleasant, uncalled-for
position," he said. "I am of half a mind to hold you here until the
police arrive. Cabby, I call upon you to witness, with all the rest of
us, that Colonel Grand has drawn a revolver with the design to kill an
unarmed, unoffending man. You have seen everything. Mr. Braddock saved
his life only by--"
"Unarmed!" shouted Colonel Grand. "Why, he is armed to the teeth. He's
after me. He's going to kill me on sight, I swear--"
"What is to prevent him from doing so now, Colonel?" demanded David.
"You are in a position where you cannot shoot.
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