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Riders of the Silences

CHAPTER 5
12/15

I've been in the same room when Hurley worked his gun once.

It wasn't any killin', but it was the prettiest bit of cheatin' I ever seen.

But even if Hurley wasn't enough, what about Carl Diaz ?" He glared his triumph at Pierre, but the latter was too puzzled to quail, and too stirred by the pale, gloomy face of Cochrane to turn toward the other.
"What of Diaz ?" "Look here, boy.

You're a kid, all right, but you ain't that young.
D'you mean to say that you ain't heard of Carlos Diaz ?" It came back to Pierre then, for even into the snowbound seclusion of the north country the shadow of the name of Diaz had gone.

He could not remember just what they were, but he seemed to recollect grim tales through which that name figured.
The other went on: "But if you ain't ever seen him before, look him over now.


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