Then ensued such a struggle as I hope I shall never see again, while we others stood looking on as if we were bound hand and foot.

The whole affair could not have lasted more than a few moments, and yet it seemed like an eternity.

Kitwater, with the strength of a madman, had seized Hayle round the waist with one arm, while his right hand was clutching at the other's throat.

I saw that the veins were standing out upon Hayle's forehead like black cords.

Do what he could, he could not shake off the man he had so cruelly wronged.