heart-numbing slowness. From time to time his elbow made a little gurgle and splash in the water. T...
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He seems a little off his head." "Reckon he is. Somebody is, that's sure. You claim Buck Duane, th...
halted. "Who goes there?" came the sharp call out of the gloom. Duane pulled his horse. The gloom ...
hope, even gladness, and a fugitive mounting assurance of victory. Twice Duane endeavored to speak...
same as it had been; but the inner life had tremendously changed. He could never become a happy man...
"Why, man, where isn't his name known?" returned Colonel Webb. "I've kept track of his record as I ...
"Git a move on, Bill," called this fellow; and he took a hasty glance backward. A stamp of hoofs ca...
until suddenly he espied Miss Longstreth. Then his face changed, and he removed his sombrero. Duane...
courtyard, and he saw Snecker go straight for Longstreth's house. Duane was not to be turned back ...
He held them close, trying to convey what he felt--that he would protect her. She leaned against hi...
"'Jennie,' he said, 'my wife said Duane came here to see you. I believe she's lyin'. I think she's ...
the cry of a woman in pain. Duane stepped into the open door, inside the room. Kate Bland lay half...
wound's healed; but you've been sick. Fever, I guess. I did all I could." Duane saw now that the d...
men would be afraid to trail you. An' you could go right in to Huntsville, where you'd be some popu...
grass, for there was none. Presently he heard the horse tramping along, and then he ran. The mud wa...