Armed soldiers scurry to line up around it, their weapons drawn and leveled. The armored vehicle carrying Joel has halted near the center of the compound. Mary Andrea said,I suppose you saw it on television, Turnquist's big coup. A hard rain was raking the deck and the winds were a steady twenty knots from east to west. ON THE OREGON'S rear deck, George Adams waited as a landing pad on the fantail rose up to deck level. What range are we set for? Pitt asked Hall. Their din would have kept the dead awake. They would cry, they would complain they would curse judges local and celestial. But there were others here, many others it seemed, whose dreams were not so benevolent, nor nights so peaceful. He was, after all, just a hash-pusher, supplying wherever there was a demand: a minor cog in the consumerist machine he had nothing to feel guilty about. It wasn't his guilt that kept him awake, but that of others. That was my error and it won't happen again. It was stupid, boy, to try and steal from me. 'Still,' he said dubiously, 'near a quarter-mile? Long ways for a bullet, sir, even if it is spinning.' Why that should be the case he had not the slightest idea, but every man he had ever spoken to about rifles had sworn it was true.
He had heard that the grooves spun the bullet which somehow made a rifle far more accurate than a shot from a smoothbore musket. I'll tell you what I know, he said, fearfully.Ī rifle!' Sharpe had heard of such weapons, but he had never handled one, and now he peered inside the muzzle and saw that the barrel was indeed cut in a pattern of spiralling grooves. A little of both, Elizara replied, and the Rowan could find no qualification in the Talent's mind.
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