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Indeed, it was beco

of hostility was fast developing between the respective partisans of

Moffat and McNeil Thus far the feud

occasional expression in sarcastic speech, and the severance of former

friendly relations, but it boded more serious trouble for the near

future To a loyal hench disdainfully at a knot of hard riders disconsolately sitting

their ponies in front of the saloon door, "We 've got theents, and they sih with the

ladies of this cao is over with We're a holdin'

the hand this game, an' it simply sweeps the board clean That duffer

McNeil's the sickest looking duck I 've seen in a year, an' the whole

blaht there can't a steer

alanced over the waiting scene of festivities with intense

satisfaction From bare squalor the spacious aparteous splendor The waxed floor

was a perfect marvel of smoothness; the numerous s had been

heavily draped in red, white, and blue hangings; festoons of the sa, tre to the

least current of air; oil laled in profusion; while within the far corner, occupying a slightly

raised platfor