Chapter 20 WITH STRANGE COMPANIONS

"A word, a sound and I fire!" came the cold, hard voice of the man in the mask. He spoke in French. The trio sat petrified, speechless, breathless. So sudden, so stunning was the shock to their senses that they were as graven images for the moment. There was no impulse to scream, to resist; they had no power to da either.

"We will injure no one