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"It's done!" said he "You shan't fight no more with the man that let

you up You're whipped, and by your oord it'd have been worse!"

He hiet a pail of water," he said to Kelsey, and the latter departed

Banion stepped apart, battered and pale beneath his oounds

"I didn't want to fight him this way," said he "I left hiain If so he wants, I'll meet him any way I hope he

won't rue back"

"You fool!" said old Bill Jackson, drawing Banion to one side "Do ye

knohat ye're a-sayin'? Whiles he was a-layin' thar I seen the bottoht fancy they ith smallish heels! That skunk'll

kill ye in the dark, Will Ye'd orto hev put out'n both his two eyes!"

A sudden soundof down brush, the

screareat tree stood a figure

that had no right there They turnedfroure to the other She saw Saht some sense out of Jackson's words, overheard

as she ca

"You!" she blazed at Will Banion "You'd put out a man's eyes! You

brute!"