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against him. We've got to keep him from doing
that, brother."

"Yeah--but how?" gasped the other, showing
renewed signs of excitement as he visioned the
holocaust with their fine plans going up in fire
and smoke just when they seemed about to corral
success.

Jack answered that question by striking the
door with his foot, the result being a loud thump.
Then he caught hold of his chum and dragged
him to one side. None too soon was this done,
for there came a series of staccato explosions
from inside the shack and tiny gleams of light in
various sections of the door told that bullets had
passed through the wood in a number of places.
Only for this prompt action on the part of the
cautious one, either or both might have had
leaden pellets lodged promiscuously about their
persons with resultant painful sensations.

"Wow! that was what I'd call a close shave,"
whispered the kneeling Perk as he surveyed
those suspicious holes in the badly riddled door,
all on a line with any crouching human figure
without.

There could no longer be any doubt as to the
warlike intentions of the man they had at bay,
his fighting spirit, first fed during those bloody
days and nights in the Argonne, had burst into
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