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She lay there, helpless, being unable to use her hands or feet.
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He pointed to the pallid face glaring at him, the eyes from which cold fires flamed.
“No, you don’t!” He caught Drake by the shoulder, sent him spinning a dozen feet away. “Damn it, Drake — don’t you understand!”
For suddenly Ruth’s eyes softened; she had turned them on Dick pitifully, appealingly — and he had loosed her ankles, had leaned forward as though to draw away the band that covered her lips.
“Your gun,” whispered Ventnor to me; before I had moved he had snatched the automatic from my holster; had covered Drake with it.
“Drake,” he said, “stand where you are. If you take another step toward this girl I’ll shoot you — by God, I will!”
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