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Yet it was equally evident that the charge which had entered the dead speculator's breast had not been delivered at the close range of the pistol found clutched in his hand. There were no powder-marks to be discerned on his pajama-jacket, or on the flesh beneath. Thus anomaly confronted anomaly, leaving open but one other theory: that the bullet found in Mr.
Let's see, p'r'aps it don't mean me, after all 'One eye gone, broken nose, scar on right cheek, powder-marks on left, stumpy beard, sallow complexion, hangdog look. I'd give a thousand ef I had it to git the feller that writ that; an' yit it means me, an' no dodgin'. Lord, Lord! what 'ud the old woman say ef she wuz to see me nowadays?"
The woman raised her head, and saw a respectable, severe looking man, in clothing rather neater than was common along Spanish Creek. "Only one," she replied, "and he's the best man livin'. He's gone to get Johnny he won't be gone long." "Your husband, ma'am?" "'Oh, no, sir; I never saw him before." "One eye gone; broken nose; scar on right cheek; powder-marks on left "
Around his collar, which had done service for several days, was twisted a red tie decorated with a glass pin. His face was spattered with blue powder-marks, as if from some quarry explosion. A lump of a mustache dyed dark brown concealed his upper lip, making all the more conspicuous the bushy, sandy-colored eyebrows that shaded a pair of treacherous eyes.
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