“and there will be one the less to fight” and Wheeler fired.
Instantly the villain dropped his hand upon his thigh, and the girl cried
out, “Oh, you aimed too low,” thinking the shot had taken effect in the
middle third of the right thigh.
Wheeler at once left the room in search of another cartridge which
unluckily he was unable to find. The wounded man who had changed his
pistol to the left hand and discharged several shots at Manning, now
turned about, and seeing Bates inside his store with a pistol in his hand
and thinking it was from this source he had received his wound, as quick
as a lightning flash sent a deadly missive at the unsuspecting Bates.
The ball crashed through the intervening glass of the store front, and
burnt a scorching track across the victims face from ear to nose.
But during this time a bloody and terrible tragedy was being enacted in
the bank.
A scene exhibiting a greater amount of reckless daring, and brutal
ferocity; of intrepid courage, and heroic fortitude; ending in a most
dastardly, and