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anything you wish," she challenged.
"No fear of my taking it on," was his answer.

"Who taught you to shoot ?" "Oh, my father, at first, and then Von, and his cowboys.

He was a shot--Dad, I mean, though Von was splendid, too." Sheldon wondered secretly who Von was, and he speculated as to whether it was Von who two years previously had led her to believe that nothing remained for her but matrimony.
"What part of the United States is your home ?" he asked.