Still he rushed forward again to meet his enemy, conscious that
his safety rested on it's resolution. Hurry now seized the other
by the waist, raised him bodily from the platform, and fell with
his own great weight on the form beneath. This additional shock
so stunned the sufferer, that his gigantic white opponent now had
him completely at his mercy. Passing his hands around the throat
of his victim, he compressed them with the strength of a vice, fairly
doubling the head of the Huron over the edge of the platform, until
the chin was uppermost, with the infernal strength he expended.
An instant sufficed to show the consequences. The eyes of the
sufferer seemed to start forward, his tongue protruded, and his
nostrils dilated nearly to splitting. At this instant a rope of
bark, having an eye, was passed dexterously within the two arms of
Hurry, the end threaded the eye, forming a noose, and his elbows
were drawn together behind his back, with a power that all his
gigantic strength could not resist. Reluctantly, even under such
circumstances, did the exasperated borderer see his hands drawn
from their deadly grasp, for all the evil passions were then in the
ascendant.
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