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Part two chapter 1 of the valley
of fear by Sir Arthur Conan 

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Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Part 2, the scours chapter 1, 

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the man. 
It was the 4th of February. 

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In the year 1875, it had been a 
severe winter and the snow lay 

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deep in the Gorges of the 
Gilmerton mountains, the steam 

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plows had. 
However, kept the railroad open 

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and the evening train, which 
connects the long line of coal 

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mining and ironworking 
settlements was slowly groaning 

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its way up the Steep gradients 
which led from stag Ville on the

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plane to vermissa the central 
Township, which lies at the head

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of vermissa valley. 
From this point, the track 

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sweeps downward to Barton's 
Crossing Helm Dale and the 

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purely agricultural County of 
Merton. 

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It was a single track railroad, 
but at every siding and they 

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were numerous long lines of 
trucks piled with coal and iron 

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ore told of the Hidden wealth 
which had brought a rude 

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population and a bustling life 
to this, most desolate corner of

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the United States of America. 
For desolate. 

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It was little could the first 
pioneer, who had traversed it 

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have ever imagined that the 
fairest prairies. 

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And the most Lush water pastures
were valueless compared to this 

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Gloomy land of black Crag and 
Tangled Forest above the 

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darkened often, scarcely 
penetrable Woods upon their 

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flanks, the hi bear crowns of 
the mountains, white snow and 

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Jagged Rock towered upon each 
flank leaving along A winding 

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tortuous Valley in the center up
this the little train was slowly

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crawling the oil lamps had just 
been lit in the leading 

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passenger car along bear, 
carriage in which some 20 or 30 

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people were seated. 
The greater number of these were

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workmen returning from their 
day's toil in the lower part of 

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the valley. 
At least a dozen by their grimed

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faces and the safety lanterns 
which They Carried Proclaim 

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themselves miners. 
These saps smoking in a group 

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and conversed in low voices. 
Glancing, occasionally at two 

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men on the opposite, side of the
car whose uniforms and badges 

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showed them to be policemen, 
several women of the laboring 

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class and one Two Travelers who 
might have been small, local 

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store, Keepers made up the rest 
of the company. 

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With the exception of one young 
man in a corner by himself. 

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It is with this man that we are 
concerned. 

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Take a good look at him for he 
is worth it. 

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He's a fresh complexion and 
middle-sized young man, not far.

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When would guess from his 
thirtieth year, he has large 

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shrewd humorous. 
Gray eyes, which twinkle 

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inquiringly from time to time as
he looks round through his 

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spectacles. 
Vehicles at the people about 

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him, it is easy to see that he 
is of a sociable and possibly 

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simple disposition anxious to be
friendly to all men. 

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Anyone could pick him at once as
gregarious in his habits and 

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communicative in his nature with
a quick wit and a ready smile, 

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and yet the man who studied him 
more closely, might discern a 

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certain firmness of jaw and Grim
tightness about the lips which 

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would warn him that there were 
debts. 

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It's beyond and that this 
Pleasant brown haired young. 

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Irishman might conceivably leave
his Mark for good or evil upon 

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any society to which he was 
introduced having made one or 

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two tentative remarks to the 
nearest minor and receiving only

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short, Gruff replies, The 
Traveler resigned himself to 

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uncongenial silence, staring 
moodily out of the window at the

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fading landscape. 
It was not a cheering Prospect 

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through the growing Gloom their 
pulse, the red glow of the 

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furnaces, on the sides of the 
hills, great heaps of slag and 

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dumps Of Cinders loomed up on 
each side. 

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With the high, shafts of the 
Collier, he's towering above 

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them. 
Huddled groups of mean wooden 

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houses. 
The windows of, which were 

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beginning to outline themselves 
in light were scattered here and

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there along the line and the 
frequent halting place. 

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Aces were crowded with their 
swarthy inhabitants the iron and

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coal. 
Valleys of the vermissa, 

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district were no resorts for the
Leisure door, the cultured 

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everywhere. 
There were Stern signs of the 

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crudest battle of Life. 
The rude work to be done and the

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rude strong workers, who did it?
The young traveler gazed out 

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into this dismal country with a 
face of mingled, repulsion and 

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interest, which showed that the 
scene was new to him at 

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intervals he drew from his 
pocket, a bulky letter to which 

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he referred and on the margins 
of which he scribbled some 

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notes. 
Once from the back of his waist,

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he produced something which one 
would hardly have expected to 

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find in the possession of so 
mild-mannered, a man It was a 

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Navy revolver of the largest 
size as he turned it slantwise 

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to the light. 
The glint upon the rims of the 

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copper shells within the drum 
showed that it was fully loaded.

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He quickly restored it to his 
secret pocket but not before it 

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had been observed by working man
who had seated himself upon the 

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adjoining bench. 
Hello mate. 

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Said he, you seem healed. 
And ready, the young man smiled 

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with an air of embarrassment. 
Yes. 

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Said, he, we need them sometimes
in the place I come from. 

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And where may that be? 
I'm last from Chicago, a 

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stranger in these parts. 
Yes, you may find, you need it 

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here. 
So, the workmen, ah, is that so 

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the young man seemed interested.
Have you heard nothing of 

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doings? 
Hereabouts. 

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Nothing out of the way. 
Why I thought the country was 

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full of it. 
You'll hear quick enough. 

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What made you come here? 
I heard there was always work 

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through willing, man. 
Are you a member of the Union? 

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Sure. 
Then, you'll get your job. 

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I guess. 
Have you any friends? 

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Not yet. 
But I have the means of making 

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them. 
How's that then? 

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I am one of the eminent order 
Freeman. 

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There's no town where there's a 
large and where there's a large.

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I'll find my friends. 
The remark had a singular effect

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upon his companion. 
He glanced around, suspiciously 

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at the others in the car. 
The miners were still Whispering

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among themselves. 
The two police officers were 

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dozing He came across seated 
himself, close to the young 

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traveler and held out his hand. 
Put it there. 

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He said a handgrip passed 
between the two. 

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I see you speak. 
The truth said the workmen, but 

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it's well to make certain he 
raised his right hand to his 

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right eyebrow, The Traveler at 
once, raised his left hand to 

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his left eyebrow. 
Dark nights are unpleasant said 

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the workmen. 
Yes for strangers to travel the 

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other answered, that's good 
enough. 

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I'm brother Scanlon lodged 341 
vermissa Valley, glad to see you

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in these parts. 
Thank you. 

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I'm brother John McMurdo large 
29, Chicago bodymaster JH Scott,

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but I'm in luck to meet a 
brother. 

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So, early, well, there are 
plenty of us about you won't 

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find the order more. 
Flourishing anywhere in the 

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states and right here, in 
vermissa Valley, but we could do

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with some Lads. 
Like, you, I can't understand a 

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spry man of the Union, finding 
no work to do in Chicago. 

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I found plenty of work to do 
said McMurdo. 

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Then why did you leave McMurdo 
nodded toward the policeman and 

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smiled? 
I guess those chaps will be glad

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to know. 
He said Scanlon groans, 

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sympathetically, In trouble. 
He asked in a whisper deep, a 

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Penitentiary job and arrest. 
Not a killing. 

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It's early days to talk of such 
things segment murder with the 

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air of a man. 
Who'd been surprised into saying

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more than he intended. 
I've my own good reasons for 

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leaving Chicago and let that be 
enough for you. 

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Who are you that you should take
it on yourself to ask such 

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things. 
His gray, eyes gleamed with 

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sudden and dangerous Anger from 
behind his glasses. 

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All right, mate. 
No offense, meant the boys will 

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think none the worse of you. 
Whatever, you may have done. 

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Where are you Bound for now 
vermissa? 

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That's the third. 
Hold down the line. 

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Where are you staying? 
McMurdo took out an envelope and

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held it close to the murky oil 
lamp. 

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Here is the address. 
Jacob Shafter Sheridan Street. 

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It's a boarding house that was 
recommended by a man I know in 

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Chicago. 
Well, I don't know it, but for 

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mr. 
Is out of my beat, I live at 

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Hobson's patch and that's here, 
were drawing up to now. 

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But say there's one bit of 
advice. 

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I'll give you before we part. 
If you're in trouble in 

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vermissa. 
Go straight to the union house 

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and see boss McGinty. 
He's the body master of 

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vermissa, Lodge and nothing can 
happen in these parts and less 

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Blackjack McGinty. 
Once it so long mate. 

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Maybe we'll meet in large one of
these evenings, but mind my 

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words, if you're in trouble, go 
to boss McGinty. 

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Scanlon descended and McMurdo 
was left once again to his 

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thoughts night had now fallen 
and the Flames of the frequent 

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furnaces were roaring and 
leaping in the darkness against 

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their lurid background. 
Dark Figures were bending and 

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straining, twisting and turning 
with the motion of winch, or of 

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windlass to the rhythm of an 
eternal Clank and raw, I guess 

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he'll must look something like 
that. 

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Said, a voice McMurdo turned and
saw that one of the policemen 

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had shifted in his seat and was 
staring out into the fiery. 

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Waste. 
For that matter said, the other 

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policeman, I allow that he'll 
must be something like that. 

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If there are worse Devils Down 
Yonder than some, we could name 

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it's more than I'd expect. 
I guess you're new to this part 

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young man. 
Well, what if I am McMurdo 

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answered in a surly voice, just 
this. 

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Mr. That I should advise you to 
be careful in choosing your 

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friends. 
I don't think I'd begin with 

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Mike Scanlon or his gang. 
If I were you, what the hell is 

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it to you? 
Who my friends Rod McMurdo in a 

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voice, which brought every head 
in the carriage round to 

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witness? 
The altercation? 

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Did I ask you for your advice or
did you think Miss such a sucker

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that I couldn't? 
Move without it. 

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You speak when you're spoken to 
and by the Lord, you'd have to 

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wait a long time. 
If it was me, he thrust out his 

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face and grinned at the 
patrolman, like a snarling, dog,

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the two policemen. 
Heavy good-natured men were 

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taken aback by the extraordinary
vehement switch their friendly 

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advances. 
Have been rejected. 

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No offense, stranger said one, 
it was a warning for your own 

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good seeing that you are by your
own showing new to the place. 

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I'm new to the place, but I'm 
not new to you and your kind 

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cried, McMurdo in cold Fury. 
I guess you're the same in all 

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places. 
Shoving, your advice. 

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In when nobody asks for it, 
maybe we'll see more of you 

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before. 
Long said, one of the patrolmen 

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with a grin, you're a real 
hand-picked one. 

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If I'm a judge. 
I was thinking the same remark, 

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the other I guess we may meet 
again. 

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I'm not afraid of you. 
And don't you think it? 

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Cried McMurdo my name is Jack 
McMurdo. 

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See, if you want me you'll find 
me at Jacob shaft as on 

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Sheridan, Street vermissa. 
So I'm not hiding from you. 

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I'm a day or night. 
I dare to look the like of you 

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in the face. 
Don't make any mistake about 

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that. 
There was a murmur of sympathy 

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and admiration from the miners 
at The Dauntless demeanor of the

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newcomer, while the two 
policemen Shrugged, their 

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shoulders and renewed a 
conversation between themselves.

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A few minutes later, the train 
ran into the ill-lit station, 

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and there was a general clearing
for vermissa. 

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Was by far, the largest town on 
the line McMurdo picked up his 

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leather grip sack and was about 
to start off into the darkness, 

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when one of the miners, accosted
him by gar, mate. 

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You know, how to speak to the 
cups. 

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He said, in a voice of all it 
was Grand to hear you. 

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Let me carry your grip and show 
you the road and passing shaft 

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as on the way. 
To my own Shack. 

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There was a chorus of friendly 
Goodnights from the other 

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miners, as they passed from the 
platform before ever. 

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He had set foot on it McMurdo. 
The turbulent had become a 

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character in vermissa. 
The country had been a place of 

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Terror, but the town was in its 
way even more depressing down 

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that Long Valley. 
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gloomy Grandeur in the huge 
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smoke. 
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of man found fitting monuments 
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spilled by the side of his 
monstrous excavations, but the 

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town showed a dead level of mean
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Rutted paste of Muddy snow. 
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uneven. 
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to show more clearly a long line
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As they approach the center of 
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brightened by a row of well-lit 
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cluster of saloons and game. 
Aiming houses in which the 

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miners spent their hard-earned 
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union house. 
Said, the guide pointing to one 

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Saloon which rose almost to the 
Dignity of being a hotel Jack 

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McGinty is the boss there. 
What sort of man is he McMurdo 

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asked, what have you never heard
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How could I have heard of him 
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stranger in these parts? 
Well, I thought his name was 

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known clear across the country. 
It's been in the papers often 

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enough. 
What for well the minor load is 

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voice over the Affairs. 
What? 

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Affairs? 
Good Lord, mr. 

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You are queer. 
If I must say it without a 

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fence, there's only one set of 
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these parts. 
And that's the Affairs of the 

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scouters. 
Why I seem to have read of the 

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scouters in Chicago, a gang of 
murderers, are they not rush on 

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your life? 
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The miner standing still in 
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His companion, man. 
He won't live long in these 

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parts of your speak in the open 
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Like that. 
Many a man has had the life 

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beaten out of him for Less. 
Well, I know nothing about them,

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it's only what I've read. 
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not read the truth. 
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him as he spoke peering into the
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some lurking Danger. 
If killing his murder and God 

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knows there's a murderer in to 
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breathe the name of Jack McGinty
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Stranger for every whisper, goes
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that is likely to let it pass. 
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After that, one standing back 
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Jacob Shafter that runs it as 
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A man as lives in this Township.
I thank you said McMurdo and 

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shaking hands with his new 
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sack in hand up The Path, which 
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door of which he gave a 
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It was opened at once, by 
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what he had expected. 
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singularly beautiful. 
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and fair-haired with the Piquant
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dark eyes. 
Eyes, with which she surveyed, 

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The Stranger with surprise. 
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which brought a wave of color 
over her pale face framed in the

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bright light of the open 
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that he had never seen a more 
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The more attractive for its 
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gloomy surroundings a lovely 
Violet growing upon one of those

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black slag heaps of the mines, 
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surprising. 
So entranced was he that he 

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stood staring without a word and
it was she who broke the 

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silence? 
I thought it was father said, 

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she with a pleasing little touch
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Did you come to see him? 
He's downtown. 

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I expect him back every minute, 
McMurdo continued to gaze at 

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her, in open admiration, until 
her eyes dropped, in confusion 

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before this masterful visitor. 
No Miss he said at last, I'm in 

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no, hurry to see him but your 
house was recommended to me for 

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board. 
I thought it might suit me and 

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now I know it will You are quick
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Said she with a smile, anyone, 
but a blind man could do as much

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the other answered. 
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Come right in sir. 
She said I miss, it'll show 

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after mr. 
Shaft has daughter, my mother's 

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dead and I run the house. 
You can sit down by the stove in

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the front room until father 
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Ah, here he is. 
So you can fix things with him 

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right away. 
A heavy elderly, man, came 

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plodding up The Path. 
In a few words McMurdo explained

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his business. 
A man of the name of Murphy had 

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given him the address in 
Chicago, he in turn and had it 

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from someone else. 
Old Shasta was quite ready, 

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stranger made, no bones about 
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Agreed at once to every 
condition and was apparently, 

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fairly flush of money for seven 
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Paid in advance. 
He was to have board and lodging

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So, it was that McMurdo the 
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Justice took up his Abode. 
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the first step, which was to 
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train of events ending in a far 
distant, Land End of part, 2 

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chapter 1, So, it was that 
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fugitive from Justice took up 
his Abode. 

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Under the roof of the shaft has 
the first step, which was to 

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lead to so long and dark, a 
train of events ending in a far 

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distant, Land End of part, 2 
chapter 1,