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"Yes, sir." "Unload 'em!" The lad "broke" each of the four pistols, picked up a piece of twine and strung them together through each trigger-guard. "Close that window and stand here at the door." With the boy at the door, Hale rolled the hand-barrel to the threshold and the white liquor gurgled joyously on the steps.
"All right, come along," he said to the captives, and at last young Dave spoke: "Whut you takin' me fer?" Hale pointed to the empty hand-barrel and Dave's answer was a look of scorn. "I nuvver brought that hyeh." "You were drinking illegal liquor in a blind tiger, and if you didn't bring it you can prove that later.
Everybody knew he sold whiskey, but he was too shrewd to be caught, until, late one afternoon, two days after young Dave's arrest, Hale coming through the Gap into town glimpsed a skulking figure with a hand-barrel as it slipped from the dark pines into Caliban's cabin. He pulled in his horse, dismounted and deliberated. If he went on down the road now, they would see him and suspect.
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