The bullet grazed his head.

The coward would have killed him most certainly if he had not succeeded in knocking the pistol out of his hand and overpowering him." "If I did not believe Mr.Landover to be an absolutely truthful, honourable man, I--" began Ruth, a little furrow between her eyebrows, "well, I might still believe a little in Mr.Percival." "And what chance had poor Landover with that highwayman, or whatever he is, pointing a revolver at him through the porthole and threatening to blow his brains out if he did not throw up his hands and let Percival alone ?" Olga Obosky bandaged Percival's hand.

She intercepted him on his way to Dr.Cullen's cabin..