Several men and women stared at us. Hilmi Bey peered from behind a pillar next the courtyard door. He had plainly taken shelter at the crack of Hélène's pistol. Montey Hilyer and Serge Vassilievich stood some distance to the right of us, paralyzed with surprise. Maude Hilyer and Sandra Vassilievna had risen from seats in the apse-like recess4 at the other end. Apparently5 they had supposed Toutou was engaged only with Hélène.
He screamed at them, insensate in his fury. His knife still dripped blood. He flung his empty pistol at us.
The door to the courtyard was jerked open, and he spun7 on his heel and dodged8 behind a pillar. Tokalji reeled in.
"Quick!" Hugh shouted. "Scatter—before they shoot!"
Watkins and I jumped right and left. Hugh sought the shelter of a pillar.
"Shoot!" yelled Toutou. "Shoot! Fools! Swine! Dogs!"
And he babbled12 on obscenely, darting13 catlike from pillar to pillar toward Watty. Hilyer and Serge simultaneously15 came to life and made for us, guns spurting16, throwing pieces of furniture to confuse us. Things happened so fast that it was impossible to keep track of everything, but I found myself involved in a pistol duel17 with Serge. Hugh and Watkins were blazing away at Hilmi, Hilyer and Tokalji, and Toutou was weaving through the smoke, seeking an opportunity to close with one of us. I paid no attention to the women until a bullet spatted19 on a pillar by my ear. I knew it could not have come from the front, and startled, I turned to the left in time to see Sandra aiming deliberately20 at me. I dodged, and thereby21 opened myself to her brother's attack.
He was an excellent marksman, and I realized there could be only one result for me if I continued exposed in flank. So I tore a lantern from its hook and flung it on the floor. The burning oil vomited22 forth23 a cloud of thick black smoke, and under cover of this, I changed my position, gaining the protection of another pillar. Here I was safe from Sandra; but her brother knew where I was and our duel continued. It was no steady stream of bullets, but a pot-shot whenever one of us thought he saw an opportunity. All around us others were doing the same thing, and the vaulted24 roof rang to the reports, while the acrid25 fumes26 of the powder and the smoke from broken lamps stung the eyes. And outside the thunder was pealing27 and the lightning splitting the heavens and Nikka's men and Tokalji's Gypsies were trying their feeble best to rival nature's forces.
Suddenly, I sensed that our opponents were bracing28 for a combined effort. There was a rapid-fire exchange of exclamations29 in the thieves' French and Tzigane dialect they used for confidential30 communication. I heard an empty cartridge31-clip jingle32 on the floor. But in the shifting light and smoke it was impossible now to tell real men from the shadows. I stuck my head around a pillar, crouched33 and slipped aside. Then, while I was unprotected, the rush came.
"Go!" called Hilyer's voice.
The shadows were pricked34 with pistol-flashes. Serge Vassilievich leaped for the pillar behind which I had stood, his gun blazing, knife in hand. He did not see me, on my knees, four feet to the right, and I put my first bullet in his thigh35. He stopped as if a giant's hand had been shoved against his breast, tottered36 and fell backward. As he fell, one of the burning oil-pools ignited a bundle of blankets, and the rising flames sketched37 us both clearly against the darkness that shrouded38 the far end of the room.
There was a scream. I recognized Sandra's voice, but I could not see her. Instead, I saw Hilmi Bey sneaking39 on Watkins, who was holding back Toutou. I drove the Levantine away with my first shot. Then the hammer clicked, and I knew the magazine was empty. I dropped to my knee again, thinking I was concealed41 by a patch of shadow, and fumbled42 for a fresh clip. But the treacherous43 light flared44 upward, the shadow disappeared and I was left defenseless. I saw a raging figure, hair flying, pistol raised, running at me. I saw the pistol flash, felt a numbing45 blow on my left shoulder and tumbled in a heap.
For a second my eyes misted, the room danced before me. Then I heard a chatter46 of Russian and Watkins, mildly disapproving47.
"None of that 'ere, miss. If you please, now! I don't want to 'urt you, but—"
I looked up. Sandra, her face contorted with demoniac rage, her empty pistol shaking in her hand, was backing away before Watty's menacing crowbar.
A woman screamed again, horribly, so that it rasped your heart-strings. It was Maude Hilyer. She stood, with hands clutching her cheeks, her gaze fixed48 on the center of the room where Montey staggered against a pillar, the blood from a punctured49 lung gurgling in his throat, bravely trying for the last time to raise the smoking muzzle50 of his automatic.
Hugh, relieved of the Englishman's attack, was taking pot-shots at Toutou and Hilmi. I saw Tokalji slip through the door into the rain, and as Vernon King ran up the stairs from the atrium Hilmi followed the Tzigane and Toutou jumped through a window, squawling like the big cat he was. Behind me Watkins was scientifically roping Sandra, hand and foot, regardless of the curses she spat18 in three languages. Vassilievich had fainted from the pain of his wound. Maude Hilyer sat on the dirty floor, under the single wobbling lantern that remained intact, and cradled the head of her dying husband. We had swept the House of the Married.
Or had we? As I tried unsuccessfully with one hand to reload my pistol, I felt a pressure on my back. I turned and very nearly impaled51 myself on a long knife-blade. A tense, willowy figure, bare-footed and tumble-haired, stood over me.
"You are Jakka," said Kara in the Tzigane dialect—I could understand simple phrases after my experience with Nikka's tribespeople. "Where is Nikka?"
"Not so fast," he said. "Whose friend are you?"
She did not understand him, and raised her knife.
"I'll shoot you, if you are a girl," warned Hugh. "Any one who resists—"
"She's all right, Hugh," I called. "She's trying to find Nikka—must have been asleep upstairs. Let her go."
But she did not wait for him to stand aside. With a single leap, she put one of the pillars between him and herself, and vaulted from the window Toutou had escaped by.
"Nothing slow about that girl," said Hugh. "Everybody whole?"
"They're still after us," he commented, dropping beside me. "Have to load my gun."
"Then load mine, too," I said. "My left shoulder's hit—whole arm is no use."
He laid down his automatic.
"We'll carry you inside with Betty. I see Watty has made a prisoner, and Vassilievich had better be watched. You can—"
"I will not," I returned. "We'll need every man before we finish to-night. Hear that!"
The courtyard had become an inferno—yells, screams, howls, shots, the beat of the rain and the din40 of the storm.
"Tie my arm to my side, and I'll be O.K.," I urged.
Betty crawled between us.
"Did I hear you call me?" she asked.
"Touch and go," she supplemented his sentence. "I have Hélène's gun. You boys had better help Nikka. I can guard this place."
There was a racket of shots.
"Yes, he must be badly outnumbered," muttered Hugh. "No time to lose. Here, Jack, where's your handkerchief? Right O! Thanks, Bet. Not too tight. Can you stand that?"
"Yes, load my gun, somebody."
Betty took it. King, ensconced behind an adjacent pillar, fired at the door.
"They seem to be waiting for us out there," he observed.
"Yes," said Hugh. "Betty, you lie here in the shadows. Don't let anybody approach you, no matter what they say. Keep an eye on Mrs. Hilyer and the Russian girl—and her brother. See him over there? He's done in, for the time-being, but if he comes to maybe you'd better tie him up."
"'Ere, your ludship," came a throaty whisper from Watkins. "This way, gentlemen."
He was at the far end of the room, and while we watched, he put his hat on the end of his crowbar—from which he refused to be parted—and stuck it above the sill of a window.
"I've done this twice now, your ludship," he added, "and nothing's 'appened. They ain't watching 'ere."
A little investigation59 proved that he was right, and we crawled out into the rain and huddled60 against the house-wall, attempting to disentangle the situation. The rain was descending61 in slanting62, blinding sheets. Pistols cracked and men gasped63 or shouted, but we could not tell whether they were friends or foes64. As we waited, two men dashed by, one in pursuit of the other. It was impossible for us to intervene. Then, with a preliminary crash of thunder, the lightning zigzagged65 across the sky, and for the winking66 of an eye the courtyard was bright as day.
I had an impression of bodies scattered67 here and there, and little clusters of men that struggled and ran. Over in the corner of the courtyard wall by the bachelors' house men swirled68 in a tumultuous mass. The darkness closed down once more, thick and wet and cold.
"Coming, Nikka!" shouted Hugh. And to us: "The big fight is the key to everything. We must break it up. They've got Nikka pinned in."
Tokalji's gang faced around as we attacked their rear; but we went clean through them and almost drove on to the knives of Nikka's party.
"After them!" panted Hugh. "We've got 'em breaking!"
Nikka called to his men in their own tongue, and they lined up with us in a thin file across the courtyard from wall to wall. Behind Nikka I had a brief vision of a figure as elusive69 as the rain. I thought of an assassin who had flanked us and lifted my automatic—but something, the proud poise70 of the head, perhaps, warned me it was Kara.
There was a crackle of pistol-fire in front of us, and a knot of figures swayed into view, distorted, indistinct. The deluge71 seemed to act as a freak lens to play tricks with normal vision; and possibly that was why comparatively few were shot. Twice I had men fair over the barrel of my pistol, and both times I missed—and I am rather better than a good shot. But I had no opportunity for philosophizing at that time.
Toutou and Hilmi Bey went for Nikka. He was bleeding from a cut in the arm, and all his men were engaged. Hugh, with King and Watty, was developing an encircling movement on the opposite end of the line. I started to go to Nikka's aid, but a man sprang at me from nowhere, and I was obliged to dodge9 him until I had a chance to shoot, I did not miss that time. When I looked again, Nikka and Toutou were circling each other, and Hilmi was at grips with Kara.
At first I thought the Levantine was scheming to throw the girl, but as I drew near I perceived that he had clinched72 with her in mortal terror of her knife. She held his own powerless by her grasp of his wrist. A mocking light gleamed in her eyes, and she shook back her loose hair and jeered73 at him in the Tzigane dialect. With one pudgy hand he strove to ward14 off her blade, but he could not control her lithe74 muscles. She tore her wrist free, the steel drove home through his sodden75 frock-coat and he collapsed76 with a squeal77.
Kara pulled out her knife as casually78 as though it had been a familiar occurrence, and turned to watch Nikka's fight with Toutou. Nikka from the corner of his eye saw the two of us, plainly waiting a chance to help him, and he leaped clear of the circle of his enemy's knife long enough to snap:
"Let be! I finish this alone!"
I couldn't have helped him, in any case, for as redoubtable79 a person as Tokalji, himself, attacked me that moment. Kara did not even notice my danger. She also ignored the man she called father. Her whole attention was concentrated upon Nikka. I fired once at the Gypsy chief, and missed. That was the last cartridge in the magazine, and I attempted to lose him in the rain. But he refused to be lost, and I was making up my mind to taking his knife in my wounded arm and battering80 his head with my pistol-butt, when Watkins loomed81 in the mist and brought down his trusty crowbar on Tokalji's knife-wrist. The Gypsy yelped82 like a dog, and the knife clattered83 on the ground. Watty produced some rope from a pocket and deftly84 twisted the man's arms behind him. Tokalji yelped again.
"Easy," I said. "The fellow's wrist is broken."
"I'm tying 'im above the helbows, Mister Jack, sir," answered Watty. "But if it did 'urt 'im a bit I wouldn't worry, sir. I 'ave an hidea, sir, 'e was one of the scoundrels that bashed me 'ead."
My one thought was of Nikka, and I sought him over the rain-battered area of the court. The fighting had drifted away toward the sea-wall. There seemed to be nobody near me. I listened hard, and in a lull85 of the storm my ears detected the click of blades. I stumbled toward it, and nearly fell on top of Kara, crouching86 as I had left her, eyes glued on the two men who circled tirelessly, steel-tipped arms crooked87 before them.
Toutou had a huge advantage in reach, but Nikka had the benefit of lithe agility88, a wrist of iron—the result of years of bowing; a hawk's eyes; and all the tricks with the blade that the people of his race have amassed89 in centuries of bloody90 strife91. Four times, while I watched, Toutou endeavored to force down Nikka's knife by the sheer strength of his gorilla-arm, and each time Nikka disengaged and refused to give the opportunity his adversary92 needed. Twice Nikka tried a certain trick, a combination of lightning thrusts and clever footwork. But the Frenchman parried it each time, and retaliated93 so quickly as to drive Nikka out of reach.
Neither of them said anything. Toutou spat and whined94 in his throat, cat-fashion. Nikka panted from the exertion95. Both of them dripped with sweat, notwithstanding the rain. There was something of an epic96 quality about their struggle, and I discovered myself taking the same almost impersonal97 interest in it that Kara demonstrated. By all the principles of normal right-behavior, I should have ignored Nikka's command to let him fight it out alone, and rushed in at the first opening to kill a monster, who did not deserve and had no appreciation98 of knightly99 treatment. But I could not. I was chained by an emotion I could not fathom100.
And yet I was absorbed in Nikka's success. My heart leaped in my throat when I saw that he was trying for the third time the trick which had twice failed. His knife went up in the same way, he shifted posture101 as he had in his other tries, and Toutou mechanically side-stepped as experience had told him was safe and aimed a stab which should have cut Nikka's throat. But Nikka was not there. He had varied102 the trick. Stooping, his knife had fallen, then sliced upward—and Toutou staggered, a look of bland103 surprise on his face, ripped open from belly104 to chest.
"You are the greatest knife-fighter of the Tziganes!" she cried triumphantly107. "You are a king! You are my man! See, while you conquered your enemy, I, too, stabbed the rat who tried to put his knife in your back."
And she led Nikka to the body of Hilmi, which, I regret to say, she kicked with her brown toes. Nikka absent-mindedly leaned over to wipe his knife on the Levantine's coat-tails, but Kara intervened.
"No, no," she exclaimed. "Here is my hair! Wipe it on my hair, beloved of my heart. Let me suck it clean with my lips! So we shall have strong sons."
Nikka looked sufficiently108 annoyed to show that he had some instincts of civilization remaining.
"Peace," he ordered royally. "Be quiet, girl!"
"Oh, hullo, Jack! Where's Hugh?"
"That you, Nikka? We think we've got Tokalji's people rounded up, but we need you to talk to them. Has Toutou—"
"He's there."
"Good for you!" exclaimed Hugh. "I'm glad he didn't get off. When you think of Uncle James and—that girl we saw—and I suppose others! What a beast!"
We splashed after him, Kara following Nikka like a dog. Wasso Mikali, his surviving young men, King and Watkins were guarding thirteen shivering Gypsies in the lee of the bachelors' quarters. In reply to questions, Tokalji told Nikka—and Kara, shamelessly throwing in her lot with us, corroborated112 him—that there had been fifteen of their band on the premises113. A search of the courtyard disclosed two of them dead, together with one of Wasso Mikali's men. We bound the arms of the prisoners, most of whom were suffering from bullet-wounds or stabs, and marched them over to the House of the Married.
The one lantern was still flickering when we entered, and Betty rose to greet us.
"Isn't she here?" asked Hugh.
"No. I don't know just when she left. There was a lot of firing, and I looked to where she had been sitting by her husband, and she was gone."
Nikka and I sped back into the courtyard. We picked our way over the occasional bodies to the street-door. It was ajar.
"I locked it myself!" cried Nikka. "Old Wasso picked it without damaging the spring. I took time when we entered to fasten it again."
I was feeling very weak. My shoulder throbbed115. Nausea116 assailed117 me in recurrent waves. But I clutched the gate-post, and peered into the street. Nobody was in sight. Sokaki Masyeri was a bare waste of mud and foaming118 gutters119.
"She escaped," said Nikka. "Too bad! We might have— What's the matter, Jack?"
He caught me as my knees bent120 under me. I felt the rain on my eyelids121, and then everything was blotted122 out.
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