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The Valley of Fear

CHAPTER 2--The Bodymaster
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"This will never do.
We have a new brother here, Baldwin, and it's not for us to greet him in such fashion.

Hold out your hand, man, and make it up!" "Never!" cried Baldwin in a fury.
"I've offered to fight him if he thinks I have wronged him," said McMurdo.

"I'll fight him with fists, or, if that won't satisfy him, I'll fight him any other way he chooses.

Now, I'll leave it to you, Councillor, to judge between us as a Bodymaster should." "What is it, then ?" "A young lady.

She's free to choose for herself." "Is she ?" cried Baldwin.
"As between two brothers of the lodge I should say that she was," said the Boss.
"Oh, that's your ruling, is it ?" "Yes, it is, Ted Baldwin," said McGinty, with a wicked stare.


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