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Yet Sahold of his enemy for the purpose

of assassination There had been another object in his mind--an utterly

mad idea, it is true, yet so bold of conception that it held a ghost of

proo into Jesse Purvy's store and chat

artlessly, like some inquisitive "furriner" He would ask questions

which by their very ier's folly But, most of all, he wanted to drop the casual

information, which he should assume to have heard on the train, that

Sa, and to mark, on the assassin leader, the

effect of the news In his new code it was necessary to give at least

the rattler's warning before he struck, and he ed his shoulders

But as he stood on the outside, wiping the perspiration from his

forehead, for the ride had been warry voices It occurred to hiainin

"I've done been your executioner fer twenty years," conized as that of Aaron Hollis, the

uards "I hain't never laid down on

ye yet Me an' Jim Asberry killed old Henry South We laid fer his boy,