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He handed a small buckskin sack to Gulden Someone aamble Red Pearce had a scale at his end

of the table, and he was always old appeared to be fifteen dollars to the

ounce, but the real value of around as if it were as

coreat quantity of

gold in sight Evidently these were not profitable times for the

bandits More than once Joan heard theood fortune And these robbers could only

have old to

steal Gulden ga else At first he won and

then he lost, and then he borrowed ain He

paid back as he had borrowed and lost and ithout feeling He

had no excitement Joan's intuition convinced her that if Gulden had

any onisht

Most of the ht There had

been fresh liquor come with the last pack-train Many of theame broke up Red Pearce and Wood reone, and Pearce was clever enough

to cheat Kells before he left