The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
“And besides the gentleman with the spade beard and the kindly eyes did not look dangerous. Hiram had forgotten about the clammy hands. He looked at him blankly and then at the umbrella, and said:{Eh ? Missing ? Damned if I know what you're talking about. I gave you your umbrella. That's mine over there in the corner. You can look it over if you want to. But you've got a nerve coming into my room.' The man sighed patiently, and said: 'That is a pity, M'sieur Holliday. I had hoped that I was mist...aken.' He then reached inside the breast of his frock-coat and produced a small nickel-plated pistol, which he fired at Hiram Holliday without further warning.
Simultaneously with the sharp little 'spang,' Hiram heard the bullet smack into the wall behind him and threw an ash-tray at the man's head, and then a magazine, a book, a sheaf of > papers, a mineral water bottle, a glass, anything and everything he could lay his hands on.
He did these things as a reflex, but it was an old idea stored away, something he had been told by his pistol-shooting instructor at the Armoury in New York, a grizzled sergeant who had said: 'If you're ever in a jam in a room with a fellow who has a gun and you have none, throw everything at him you can lay your hands on, and keep on throwing until you can get to him.MoreLess
Simultaneously with the sharp little 'spang,' Hiram heard the bullet smack into the wall behind him and threw an ash-tray at the man's head, and then a magazine, a book, a sheaf of > papers, a mineral water bottle, a glass, anything and everything he could lay his hands on.
He did these things as a reflex, but it was an old idea stored away, something he had been told by his pistol-shooting instructor at the Armoury in New York, a grizzled sergeant who had said: 'If you're ever in a jam in a room with a fellow who has a gun and you have none, throw everything at him you can lay your hands on, and keep on throwing until you can get to him.MoreLess
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