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

Your father convinced him I was an expert swordsman, and consequently he chose derringers, believing they would be to his advantage.

Under his arm was the leather case containing the derringers, and we crossed the intervening turf without exchanging a word.

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

" The Louisianian smiled grimly, but walked over to the weapon case, and picked up the two derringers, testing their weight, and the length of barrel.