
Salomy Jane
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ISBN10: 1985060183
ISBN13: 9781985060180
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 12 2018
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781985060180
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 12 2018
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Only one shot had been fired. It had gone wide of its mark, -the ringleader of the Vigilantes, -and had left Red Pete, who had fired it, covered by their rifles and at their mercy. For his hand had been cramped by hard riding, and his eye distracted by their sudden onset, and so the inevitable end had come. He submitted sullenly to his captors; his companion fugitive and horse-thief gave up the protracted struggle with a feeling not unlike relief. Even the hot and revengeful victors were content. They had taken their men alive. At any time during the long chase they could have brought them down by a rifle-shot, but it would have been unsportsmanlike, and have ended in a free fight, instead of an example. And, for the matter of that, their doom was already sealed. Their end, by a rope and a tree, although not sanctified by law, would have at least the deliberation of justice. It was the tribute paid by the Vigilantes to that order which they had themselves disregarded in the pursuit and captur
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