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"I should say they did!" Bert interjected "They dragged the crowd out

of the shaft--and they were a tough-looking proposition, I can tell

you!--and stood them up in a row They shaved half of Davidson's head

and half his beard, on opposite sides They left tufts of hair all over

Arthur They made a six-pointed star on the top of Slayton's crown

Then they put thethe rear on three scrubby little burros Then the whole outfit

was started toward Deadwood The boys took them as far as Blue Lead,

where they delivered the there, with instructions to

pass theot to Deadwood I don't knohat's

become of them since"

"I think it was cruel!" put in Miss Fay decidedly

"Perhaps But it was better than hanging them"

"What became of Mrs Arthur?" asked the invalid

"I shipped her to Deadith a littlefor her if her husband never did show up She'd get

along better without hiot rid of, Fay proceeded at once

to put the assess Western