![]() Of course, of course I had been wondering. I was only sayin' what Louki told me, he said defensively. Bitter-mouthed, savage, the American was swearing softly and continuously, oblivious to the pain as he pounded his fist time and again into the sharp-edged gravel before him. Then he became aware of the low murmuring to his left, shifted round again. The gravelly earth beneath his elbows grated harshly as Mallory shifted his weight slightly, looked at the two men to his right, Andrea with his impassive face empty of all expression, Louki with the sheen of tears in his eyes. The sudden silence was curiously oppressive, louder, more obtrusive than the clamour that had gone before. The frenetic stammering of the machine-guns stopped abruptly and in unison, the sound sheared off as by a guillotine. The quiet voice was almost a prayer.That's all I ask. He broke off suddenly, flattened himself in reflex instinct as a burst of machine-gun bullets struck the steep-walled rock above their beads and whined up the gorge in vicious ricochet. ![]() The thought of any more slaughter made him feel almost physically sick.They won't try again. ![]() We leave them be Mallory echoed emphaticaliy. I have been thinking, and it can be nothing else. But what in the universe that other weird looking contraption can be. He squinted again at the guns, forehead lined in puzzlement.That first one's a mortar, I reckon. ![]() Ah, well, mebbe I was mistaken, Miller said magnanimously. ![]()
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