Download or read book The Spread Eagle written by Gouverneur Morris and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1910 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There appeared in Forrest's right hand, which had seemed empty, which had seemed not to move or to perform in any celeritous and magic manner, a very small, stubby, nickel pistol, with a caliber much too great for it, and down whose rifled muzzle the earl found himself gazing. The earl was startled. But he said, "I was mistaken, sir; you are not a horse thief." As mysteriously as it had come, the wicked little derringer disappeared. Forrest's hands remained innocently in plain view of all.