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Square Deal Sanderson

CHAPTER II
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He told himself that many times as he rode slowly forward.

To his knowledge the country was cursed with too many men of the type the two appeared to be; and as he had no doubt that the other man was of that type also, they would be doing the country a service were they to annihilate one another.
Sanderson, though, despite his conviction, felt a pulse of sympathy for the first rider.

It was that emotion which impelled him to keep going cautiously forward when, by all the rules of life in that country, he should have stood at a distance to allow the men to fight it out among themselves.
Sanderson's interest grew as the fight progressed.

When he had approached as far as he safely could without endangering his own life and that of Streak, he dismounted at the bottom of a small hill, trailed the reins over Streak's head and, carrying his rifle, made his way stealthily to the crest of the hill.

There, concealed behind an irregularly shaped boulder, he peered at the combatants.
He had heard several reports while dismounting and ascending the hill, and by the time he looked over the crest he saw that the battle was over.


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