But just as he turned there came the shot of a firelock from higher up the hill ; and with the very sound of it Glenure fell upon the road . `` O , I am dead ! '' he cried , several times over . The lawyer had caught him up and held him in his arms , the servant standing over and clasping his hands . And now the wounded man looked from one to another with scared eyes , and there was a change in his voice , that went to the heart . `` Take care of yourselves , '' says he . `` I am dead . '' He tried to open his clothes as if to look for the wound , but his fingers slipped on the buttons . With that he gave a great sigh , his head rolled on his shoulder , and he passed away . The lawyer said never a word , but his face was as sharp as a pen and as white as the dead man 's ; the servant broke out into a great noise of crying and weeping , like a child ; and I , on my side , stood staring at them in a kind of horror . The sheriff 's officer had run back at the first sound of the shot , to hasten the coming of the soldiers . At last the lawyer laid down the dead man in his blood upon the road , and got to his own feet with a kind of stagger . I believe it was his movement that brought me to my senses ; for he had no sooner done so than I began to scramble up the hill , crying out , `` The murderer ! the murderer ! '' So little a time had elapsed , that when I got to the top of the first steepness , and could see some part of the open mountain , the murderer was still moving away at no great distance . He was a big man , in a black coat , with metal buttons , and carried a long fowling-piece . `` Here ! '' I cried . `` I see him ! '' At that the murderer gave a little , quick look over his shoulder , and began to run .
The next moment he was lost in a fringe of birches ; then he came out again on the upper side , where I could XXXXX him climbing like a jackanapes , for that part was again very steep ; and then he dipped behind a shoulder , and I saw him no more .
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