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Updated: April 30, 2025
Lysander Sproul, driving his dun-colored mules leisurely toward the mesa, looked back now and then at the winery which crowned its low hill like a bit of fortification. "If I'd really had any idee o' gettin' ahead o' him," he reflected, "or circumventin' him an inch, I reckon I'd been more civil; it's no more 'n fair to be civil to a man when you're gettin' the best of 'im; but I hain't.
Then he extracted a roll of bills from a hip pocket and laid a five-dollar note on the table. "That meal was worth it," he said to the girl with a smile. She shook her head. "I I couldn't take it," she said. "That's clean money, miss. I earned it circumventin' three of the most ornery card sharps in Arizona." She continued to shake her head. "You do not understand," she murmured.
"Now women are troublesome cattle to deal with mostly," said Goggins. "They are remarkably 'cute first, and then they are spiteful after; and for circumventin' either way are sharp hands. You see they do it quieter than men; a man will make a noise about it, but a woman does it all on the sly.
"It iss circumventin' you at your own trade, fightin' you wi' your own claymore, that I will be doin'," he thought, as he rose a second time, and swam softly with the stream.
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