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Updated: May 9, 2025
As long as a man could bring his contraband to market past marauding Apaches and the bands of renegade whites who had drifted to the border, he was entitled to the profit he made and no questions asked. So the men at the Bruncknow house accepted Schiefflin's presence without any fear of ill consequences.
More followed and still more, until thirty-odd were bobbing up and down to the movement of the horses. A moment passed, one of those mighty moments when a man's life appears before him as a period which he has finished, when a man's thoughts rove swiftly over what portions of that period they choose. And Schiefflin's mind went to that talk with the man at the Bruncknow house.
One of their number he had lost two or three small bets by Schiefflin's appearing safe and sound on various evenings took it upon himself to give their visitor a bit of advice. "What for," he asked, "do yo'-all go a-takin' them pasears that-a-way?" Schiefflin smiled good-naturedly at the questioner. "Just looking for stones," he said. "Well," the other told him, "all I got to say is this.
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