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"'What 'd you call me?' he asked, his jaw shakin'

"'I 'ain't called you yet,' answered Las Vegas 'I just whooped'

"'What d'ye want?'

"'You scared s, an' he began to take quick looks 'round But he never ht about the way he stood Las Vegas had both arms half out, stretched as if he as do thet, but when I seen him then I understood it

"'You know An' you threatened her an' her sister Go for your gun,' called Las Vegas, low an' sharp

"Thet put the crowd right an' nobody reen then I alun if he had pulled one

"'Hyar, you're off--sourls--I--'

"'Shut up an' draw!' yelled Las Vegas His voice just pierced holes in the roof, an' it s collapsed Every s wouldn't an' couldn't draw He was afraid for his life He was not what he had claimed to be I don't know if he had any friends there But in the West good s's kind An' thet stony quiet broke with ha It shore was as pitiful to see Riggs as it was fine to see Las Vegas

"When he dropped his aras got red in the face He slapped Riggs with one hand, then with the other An' he began to cuss hias Care It was a stream of the baddest names known out here, an' lots I never heard of Now an' then I caught so-haired skunk, but for the most part they was just the cussedest kind of naas spouted them till he was black in the face, an' foaot out of breath fros all about the saloon, threw hiot kickin' hi behind An' he drove him out of town!"