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"Listen now an' don't interrupt We ain't got a lot of timeSo

never mind how I happened to find out about Pearce It was all

accident, an' jest because I put two an' two togetherPearce

was approached by one of this secret vigilante band, an' he planned

to sell the Border Legion outright There was to be a big stake in

it for hiang There's Dartt an' Singleton an' Frenchy an' Texas all caught

red-handed at jobs Pearce put the vigilantes to watchin' theot the proofs! Jest wait Listen

to me!You all never in your lives seen a snake like Red Pearce

An' the job he had put up on us was grand To-day he was to squeal

on the whole gang You kno he began on Kells--an' hoith his

oily tongue he asked a guarantee of no gun-play But he figgered

Kells wrong for once He accused Kells's girl an' got killed for his

pains Mebbe it was part of his plan to git the girl hiion to-day An' if he

hadn't been killed by this time we'd all be tied up, ready for the

noose!Mebbe thet wasn't a lucky shot of the boss's Men, I was

the first to declare ainst Kells, an' I'm here now to say

thet I was a fool So you've all been fools who've bucked against

him If this ain't provin' it, what can!