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Updated: June 28, 2025
He had no pain in his wounded arm, but the sense of the shock clung in his consciousness, and this, with the tremendous surprise of the deceit, and sudden release of long-dammed overmastering passion, caused him to empty the magazine of his Winchester in a terrible haste to kill the man he had hit. These were all the loads he had for his rifle. Blood passion had made him blunder.
"Bernardino has just been killed murdered with his own gun." Gaston Isbel seemed to exhale a long-dammed, bursting breath that let his chest sag. A terrible deadly glint, pale and cold as sunlight on ice, grew slowly to dominate his clear eyes. "A-huh!" ejaculated Bill Isbel, hoarsely. Not one of the three men asked who had done the killing.
He steadied himself, sat still as a cloud for a moment, and then stirred deliberately and of set purpose. He was asking his horse the question. There was no doubt of the reply. Four-Pound shot to the front like a long-dammed stream.
Bibb had opened the flood-gates of a stream of long-dammed discourse, overjoyed to have captured an audience that had not suffered under a hundred repetitions of his views and theories. "One year more," said Bibb, "and I'll go back to God's country. Oh, I know it's pretty here, and you get dolce far niente handed to you in chunks, but this country wasn't made for a white man to live in.
Kirk's lethargy left him. He flushed. "I think that will be about all, Bannister?" he said. He spoke quietly, but his voice trembled. But Bailey's long-dammed hatred, having at last found an outlet, was not to be checked in a moment. "Will it? Will it? The hell it will. Let me tell you that I came here to talk straight to you, and I'm going to do it.
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