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He stood with his thumbs hooked inside his gun-belt and watched the coach that held the peace of the country within its varnished walls go sliding out of the yard, its green tail lights the only illumination anywhere behind the engine.
She believed beyond a doubt that she had doomed herself along with Jim Cleve; she felt that she had the courage, the power, the love to save him, if not herself. And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not equal her love. That morning, before being lifted upon his horse, Kells buckled on his gun-belt.
Oh, you devil, you fiend! I 'm not the one you 're after it's Murphy!" For a single moment Hampton stared at the cringing figure. Then suddenly he rose to his feet in decision. "Stand up! Lift your hands first, you fool. Now unbuckle your gun-belt with your left hand your left, I said! Drop it on the floor."
However, as he returned the gun-belt to its place, his hand shook so that he pawed all around the nail on which it was accustomed to hang. Steele Weir would never forget that moment of panic, his father's spring to the wall and following laugh the only laugh he had heard from those lips; and though but twelve years old at the time he could not misread the episode.
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