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"My nerves are on a hair-trigger these days," Martin apologized. The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting episode of the night. I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. |
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