Highwayman Claude

Usage examples of duval.

But to journey to Five' Duval hunched his shoulders in the inimitable shrug with which a Frenchman can express so little or so much.

Scarcely waiting for the motors to warm up properly, Duval poured on the power, and the strangely assorted couple took off on perhaps the most hazardous journey in the history of rocketry.

Completely ignoring the physical effects of acceleration, Duval soon had the rocket ship hurtling down at speeds she had never achieved before, and for which she was never built.

Handling this mighty force with dexterity, Duval jockeyed the ship so it was barely moving when it reached the appointed spot in space.

Everyone turned to look at Duval, who had been completely forgotten in the excitement.

Deftly, and before anyone had the slightest inkling of what was happening, Duval slipped up behind Strike, tripped him, and threw him easily to the ground.

He seized the paralysis ray model and set out after Duval as fast as he could go.

The watchers outside listened intently at their helmet earphones, but no word came from either Duval or Strike They got in touch with those still trapped in the ship, but the latter reported nothing.

That was natural, as the lethal game being played between Duval, Strike, and the Cacus was taking place along nearly airless passages where sound would not carry well.

As the crew tumbled in, Duval was crouching by the passage corner and had just finished yammering at Tommy Strike to stay back and not be a fool.

At once it spied Duval and emitted another of those hideous shrilling sounds.

Strike, off to one side and several feet behind Duval, dropped to his knees and fumbled with the ray-box.

And with supreme courtesy to the last, Duval carefully rolled over to face the wall, that a woman might not have to suffer the unpleasant sight of a dying man.

The wind was generally from the south, so even though The Place is only a few blocks from the Duval Street tourist crawl, I couldn't detect the usual trace amounts of vomit or testos­terone in the mix.

To my astonishment and joy, just about every one of my former customers opted to follow me, in a caravan of school buses, and I ended up opening yet another tavern, a little south of Duval Street, which I called simply The Place.