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Then he laid it away between the folds of his remarkable garment very carefully, and went out, his slicker across his arm, to take up his life in that strip of contention and strife between Vesta Philbrook's far-reaching wire fences. The news quickly ran over the country that Vesta Philbrook had hired the notorious Duke of Chimney Butte and his gun-slinging side partner to ride fence.
She grasped that import only slowly, by degrees. "You lie, you gun-slinging cowboy!" she cried. "No, Louise. He told me so himself." "He did! ... When?" she whispered, very low. "Today. He was at the stage office. He meant to leave today. He was all togged up, frock coat, high hat.... Oh, God Louise, I know, I know, because it was my sweetheart he married." Pan ended gaspingly.
He could understand her better, perhaps, than one whom violence had passed undisturbed. There was nothing farther from his desire than strife and turmoil, gun-slinging and a fearful notoriety. But there he was, set up against his will, against his record, as a man to whom it was wise to give the road.
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