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The Two-Gun Man

CHAPTER VI
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She ain't nothin' to me; she just done what any other girl would do if a man come to her place bit by a rattler." He spurred his pony forward at a sharp lope.

And now he found that his thoughts would go back to the moment of his departure from the cabin that morning.

She had accompanied him to the door, after bandaging the ankle.

Her brother had gone away an hour before.
"I'm thankin' you, ma'am," Ferguson said as he stood for a moment at the door.

"I reckon I'd have had a bad time if it hadn't been for you." "It was nothing," she returned.
He had hesitated--he still felt the thrill of doubt that had assailed him before he had taken the step that he knew was impertinent.


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