THE DUEL
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come back from the mountains.… Remember and keep behind the point, I shall think of you much.… Only clumsy fools try to see how much blood they can let loose with a knife with their cutting and slashing."
There was more, but he had turned away and the words were lost in his throat.
Lander, too, felt very lonely as he made for the Washington Avenue store. He found the mule hitched at the rear of the dark building. Mounting and holding his rifle ready to repulse any attack, he rode to the plain back of the city and swung into the north for his dash to St. Charles.
