[Sally Dows and Other Stories by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookSally Dows and Other Stories PART III 7/9
The gambling saloons were to be "cleaned out" that night, the tables and appliances thrown into the street and burnt, the doors closed, and the gamblers were to be conducted to the outskirts of the town and forbidden to enter it again on pain of death. "Does this yer refer to Jovita Mendez' saloon ?" asked a voice. To their surprise the voice was not Parks' but Shuttleworth's.
It was also a matter to be noted that he stood a little forward of the crowd, and that there was a corresponding movement of a dozen or more men from Fiddletown who apparently were part of the meeting. The chairman (No.
10) said there was to be no exception, and certainly not for the originator of disorder in Buckeye! He was surprised that the question should be asked by No.
72, who was an old resident of Buckeye, and who, with No.
73, had suffered from the character of that woman's saloon. "That's jest it," said Shuttleworth, "and ez I reckon that SAUNDERS AND ME did all the disorder there was, and had to turn ourselves out o' town on account of it, I don't see jest where SHE could come into this affair.
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