[The Two-Gun Man by Charles Alden Seltzer]@TWC D-Link bookThe Two-Gun Man CHAPTER I 3/12
He reined in his pony, allowing it to advance at a walk, while with alert eyes he endeavored to search out the cause of the excitement.
He did not have long to watch for the explanation. A man had stepped out of the door of one of the saloons, slowly walking twenty feet away from it toward the center of the street.
Immediately other men had followed.
But these came only to a point just outside the door.
For some reason which was not apparent to the rider, they were giving the first man plenty of room. The rider was now able to distinguish the faces of the men in the group, and he gazed with interested eyes at the man who had first issued from the door of the saloon. The man was tall--nearly as tall as the rider--and in his every movement seemed sure of himself.
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