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Updated: May 4, 2025
Well and good; but where was the warrior to be found who would volunteer to go up on the summit of the frail mud-and-stone wall and hook the anchor in the right place The affair now wore a different aspect altogether, no one being willing to go; whereupon the officer in command reprimanded his troops for their lack of pluck.
And the heat rose up to meet them from the waterless ravine as if its floor were Tophet's lid and the devil busy under it, stoking. It was midday when at last they stood on bottom and swayed like men in a dream fingering their bruises and scarcely able for the heat haze to see the tangled mass of stone towers and mud-and-stone walls that faced them, a mile away. Nobody challenged them yet.
We tore by another freight waiting upon a siding located amidst a wide débris of tin cans, scattered sheet-iron, stark mud-and-stone chimneys, and barren spots, resembling the ruins from fire and quake. "There is Julesburg." "A town?" I gasped. "The end." She smiled. "The only inhabitants now are in the station-house and the graveyard." "And the others? Where are they?" "Farther west.
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