You are armed ?" "No; I have never felt the need." "Then take this," and I thrust a pistol into her hands.

"I took it from the rack in the cabin, and can get another.

It is charged; keep it hidden about your person, but use it only when all else fails.

Do you see this necessity now from my standpoint ?" "Yes," hesitatingly, "all that you say is true, but--but the thought frightens me; it--it is like creeping into a lion's cage having only a fan with which to defend myself." I smiled at her conceit.
"A fan rightly used is no insignificant weapon.

In the hands of a woman it has won many a victory.