He remained in the snow-covered road, staring at the darkened fields, pallid with grief and rage.
Suddenly he snatched the Derringer from his pocket. The barrel into which he looked was but a tiny orifice, yet wide and deep as the pit of death. He lifted his arm. A pressure of the finger, that was all that was needed—
"Bah! for a woman? She is not worth it!"
Vassilitch fired into the air. The report echoed and re-echoed—a note of thunder in the quiet night!
Eccentricities of Equilibrium.
By Louis Nikola. With Illustrations by the Author.
As a preliminary to the practical reproduction of the experiments herein described, it is necessary to invade the kitchen and to carry off the following articles, viz.: four forks, a plate, a tea-cup, a bottle, some corks, the cook's basting-ladle and strainer, and a few other odd things which will be found enumerated from time to time in connection with the experiments in which they become necessary.