[The Young Engineers in Arizona by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookThe Young Engineers in Arizona CHAPTER XXIV 14/16
I hate to speak harshly of a dying man, but I'd like to see you get a grain or two of common sense into your head, boy." Again Farnsworth flushed, but three or four seasoned Arizona men who stood near by added their advice, in line with that of Mr.Hawkins. Clarence soon edged away. An hour after daylight Jim Duff died.
Dr.Furniss and the others who were with the gambler at the last were unable to state that Duff had offered any expression of regret for his evil life, or for his last wicked acts. Jim Duff died as he had lived. George Ashby was sent to an asylum and his property sold for his benefit.
After a year he was discharged as cured.
He has vanished, swallowed up in some other community, and nothing more has been heard of him. Trailed by detectives of a fire insurance company, Frank Danes was soon caught and brought back to Arizona.
He was fairly convicted of having set the old Cactus House on fire, though he could not be persuaded to admit himself an agent of the Colthwaite Company.
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