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Updated: June 14, 2025
For a moment the desperado's eyes sought the pale face of his would-be slayer. A devilish smile lurked in their depths. Then he held out the pistol for the other to take, while his whole manner underwent a hideous change. "Here, take it, you wretched worm," he cried, with sudden savagery. "Take it, you miserable fool," he added, as Scipio remained unheeding.
Tad, instantly divining the purpose of the man when he saw his hand fly to the pistol holster under his coat, sprang forward. There was a deafening report. A bullet buried itself in the ceiling of the room. Tad had struck up the desperado's arm just in the nick of time, thus preventing a terrible crime. But the end was not yet.
He kept on pleading for his life to the very last instant, after he had told the men to take his body to his mistress for burial. This woman was really the cause of Lyons' undoing. He had been warned, and would have left the country but for her. A woman was very often the cause of a desperado's apprehension. Jack Gallegher in his last moments was, if possible, more repulsive even than Boone Helm.
They killed each other on slight provocation, and hoped and expected to be killed themselves for they held it almost shame to die otherwise than "with their boots on," as they expressed it. I remember an instance of a desperado's contempt for such small game as a private citizen's life.
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