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Updated: June 18, 2025
Thanks to the greed of the company, there was nothing in the purse but some small change. Predovich closed it and dropped it to the floor. "Wait now! He's not through!" cried the master of ceremonies. "He's got that money somewhere, boys! Did you look in his side-pockets, Jake?" "Not yet," said Jake.
"Well, risk the night air once," said Hal. "It's better than having somebody let it into you with a knife." "But that fellow Predovich he follow us up canyon too!" "Yes, but he's only one man, and we don't have to fear him. If he went back for others, he'd never be able to find us in the darkness."
Afterwards Hal made inquiry among the English-speaking men, and learned that the coroner did sometimes come to the camp. He would empanel a jury consisting of Jeff Cotton, the marshal, and Predovich, the Galician Jew who worked in the company store, and a clerk or two from the company's office, and a couple of Mexican labourers who had no idea what it was all about.
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