lumps of clay were used, which operated much the same as a sand-bag,
whilst enabling the operator to work from a considerable distance.

Hidden, over by the ancient chapel it might be, one of this evil
twain had struck down Morris, the constable; from the shelter of the
trees, from many yards away, they had shot their singular missiles
through the open windows at Bristol and myself. Bristol had
succumbed, and now, with a redness showing through his close-cut
hair immediately behind the right ear, lay wholly unconscious at my
feet.

It had been a divine accident which had caused me to drop my
revolver, and, stooping to recover it, unknowingly to frustrate the
design of the second slinger upon myself. The light of the lamp
fell upon the face of the dead Hashishin. He lay forward upon his
hands, crouching almost, but with his face, his dreadful,
featureless face, twisted up at me from under his left shoulder.

God knows he deserved his end; but that mutilated face is often
grinning, bloodily, in my dreams.

And then as I stood, between that horrid exultation which is born
of killing and the panic which threatened me out of the darkness,
I saw something advancing . . . slowly . . . slowly . . . from the
elmen shades toward the loggia.

It was a shape--it was a shadow. Silent it came--on--and on.
Where the dusk lay deepest it paused, undefined; for I could give
it no name of man or spirit. But a horror seemed to proceed from
it as light from a lamp.