Molly's Husband Author:Richard Marsh General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: Cassell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select ... more »from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON There ensued in that hollow, immediately after the appearance of that young man, an episode which was as brief as it was lively. When he put to them, in ungentle tones, that question, the quartette were taken wholly by surprise. The big man, for an instant, let go of the girl entirely. She was quick to take advantage of the opportunity by scrambling on to her feet and calling to the young man above. " Mr. Drummond," she exclaimed, " help ! They wanted to kill me !" There was nothing to show that they had intended to go as far as that, but the young man stopped to ask no further questions. He came rushing down the slope. " You brutes!" he shouted. By the time he reached the bottom the four men were on their feet. Not for a second did one of them seem to lose his presence of mind; they had not improbably been taken by surprise more than once in the course of their adventurous careers. As before, the fat man acted as chief sp okesman. "You look after the girl, Abednego, we'll tackle him; what you've got to do is to keep her still." To give an exact account of what instantly occurred would not be easy. The giant picked the girl clean off her feet j as he held her to him with his right arm, with his left hand he rendered it impossible for her to give utterance to a sound. It is not impossible that the sight of the girl being handled with such scant ceremony inflamed Mr. Drummond's ire. " You hound!" he cried, and he made as if to leap at the giant and put an end to him. But the trio made an end of him before he got there. His attentio...« less