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Keith of the Border

CHAPTER II
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The remaining mules were gone, and no semblance of life remained anywhere.
Keith dropped his reins over his horse's head, and, with Winchester cocked and ready, advanced cautiously.
Death from violence had long since become almost a commonplace occurrence to Keith, yet now he shrank for an instant as his eyes perceived the figure of a man lying motionless across the broken wagon tongue.

The grizzled hair and beard were streaked with blood, the face almost unrecognizable, while the hands yet grasped a bent and shattered rifle.

Evidently the man had died fighting, beaten down by overwhelming numbers after expending his last shot.

Then those fiends had scalped and left him where he fell.

Fifty feet beyond, shot in the back, lay a younger man, doubled up in a heap, also scalped and dead.


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