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Updated: June 27, 2025
But the leader of that caravan turned out to be Durade." "Durade!" echoed Neale, intensely. "Yes. He was traveling east. He treated me well, but threatened me. When we reached the construction camp, somewhere back there, he started his gambling-place. One night I escaped. I walked all that night all the next day. And I was about ready to drop when I found this camp. It was night again.
He dragged me about from one gambling-place to another, and I saw that if I resisted he would go without me. He lost a fortune while we were together, and I do really believe he is ruined, poor dear." Ashmead suppressed all signs of ill-temper, and asked, grimly, "Did he quarrel with you, then?"
All Angels knows him for a fighter to the finish when he is sober, and for the biggest fool and the most harmless one when he is in liquor. He took advantage of this, reeled into the gambling-place as if he were too drunk to see straight, played the fool till he got behind his man after which the matter simplified itself.
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