"Stand back, on your life."
"You stand aside," cried Jack.
"Another step and I fire!" cried Lenoir.
"Bah!"
Jack pushed on.
Lenoir pulled the trigger.
Bang it went.
But the ball whistled harmlessly over Jack's head, and lodged in the slanting roof.
A friendly hand from behind the coiner had knocked up his arm in the very nick of time.
At the self-same instant some eight or ten men, fully armed, burst into the vault.