Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand
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reward."
"Colonel Macon, I have never worked for money before and I shall not work for it now." "You trouble me with interruptions. Who mentioned money? You shall not have a penny!" "No?" "The reward shall grow out of the work." "And the work?" "Is fighting." At this Donnegan narrowed his eyes and searched the fat man thoroughly. It sounded like the talk of a charlatan, and yet there was a crispness to these sentences that made him suspect something underneath. For that matter, in certain districts his name and his career were known. He had never dreamed that that reputation could have come within a thousand miles of this part of the mountain desert. "You should have told me in the first place," he said with some anger, "that you knew me." "Mr. Donnegan, upon my honor, I never heard your name before my daughter uttered it." Donnegan waited soberly. |
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