"If you make me fire I shall not only shoot you," I called, "but bring the police up, and you'll have to explain this to them."
And as we stood thus, the carriage drove up.
CHAPTER VI
GARETH
I was quite as anxious to avoid police interference as the men themselves could be; but I knew the threat was more likely to drive them off than any other.
To recover the girl, they would have bludgeoned me readily enough, if they could have done it without being discovered; but my weapon made that impossible. Moreover, they liked the look of the business end of the revolver as little as many braver men.
The stick was lowered; they whispered together, and then tried to fool me. They began to edge away from one another, so as to be able to rush in from opposite directions.
"You stand just where you are, or I fire, right now," I called.
They stopped and swore.