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Updated: June 14, 2025
And now, when the finding of the roll of estimates upon the floor and the blood clotted crease in Garry Devereau's forehead made further argument superfluous, his listlessness would have left Fat Joe alarmed had it not been for a recollection of the light he had glimpsed in Steve's eyes at the beginning of their sudden and unexplained return to camp the night before, and his brooding silence on the road.
For he's just as near over as I'd care to see a man, unless it was someone I'd a little prefer dead! It ain't that scratch on the head that's got him slippin', either." Joe paused and turned to address Garry Devereau's still white face itself.
And they replied, with equal logic, that every reputable club in the country should bar him thenceforth. In a short interview, not as unsatisfactory as Devereau's, Pig-iron Dunham broke a rule and talked for publication. "It is the sort of thing which has given a bad name to a clean and manly sport in this state," he said.
And he had never liked the boy; never learned to like the man he had grown to be. Underneath Dexter Allison's jovial exterior there was a cynicism which for hardness would have made Garry Devereau's worst moments seem mere childish fits of spleen.
While he was struggling with Garry Devereau's faltering heart he had had scant leisure to devote to the problem of the other man's identity that shadowy figure which had come plunging out of the cabin door and gone crashing off into the brush, a noisy but invisible target for his revolver. Now recognition and a light of partial understanding rose and intermingled in his eyes.
Devereau's reference to you has this morning made plain." He stopped to touch a match to the dry grains of tobacco which he had been tamping into the bowl of his pipe; he swung slowly around toward the inert figure on the bunk. When he spoke again the thread of raillery was gone from his voice. "He'll sleep the day through, I think," he said, "and the night, perhaps.
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