And pulseless and cold, with a derringer by his side and a bullet in his heart, though still calm as in life, beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat.

On the field, he said, you fired before the word was spoken, and while he was still lying on the ground, shocked by the bullet, you flung the derringer at him, cutting his forehead; then drew your own revolver.

" "Shore I would," she affirmed, serenely, dragging a small and ugly derringer from its place of concealment and balancing it on a pink palm.

I can recall the scene now, clearly etched on my memorythe outlines of the trees silhouetted against the sky, the dark shadow of the stables, the green, level turf, the two figuresthe one short and stout, the other tall and slendertalking earnestly; the deep blue of the sky overhead, the steel gleam of the derringer in the open case, and Le Gaire loading carefully, his eyes now and then glancing across at me.

I have two derringers up stairs exactly alike; my father was out with them twice!

and flung the unloaded derringer with all the force of his arm at my face.