The Rifles: An Excerpt

[jbor]

>> On top of that,
>> they could as easily have stolen Lepton's rifle along with the Tub and the
>> electric eel.

      "Had we seen this Rifle first...?" Dixon, to appearance forthrightly,
    "we might be off with it instead,-- that is of course unless our Host,
    the Sharper, be a particular Friend of thine...?"
      Mason, his eyes protruding in alarm, tugs upon Dixon's Sleeve,
    hissing, "Don't you see, there's a Curse upon it, for Heaven's Sake,
    Dixon,-- ?" (430)

But yes, they stole Lord Lepton's tub to transport Professor Voam's "Guyana
Torpedo". 

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