15/19 His heavy frame trembled as if under the effects of a bad ague; the hand which had struck the blow shook so violently that the stick dropped from it. And Mallalieu looked down at the stick, and in a sudden overwhelming rage kicked it away from him over the brink of the quarry. He lifted his fist and shook it--and just as suddenly dropped it. The trembling passed, and he broke out into a cold sweat of fear. "If--if he's killed? |