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The End of the Dots.
Slim may not have been more curious than his fellows, but he was perhaps more single-hearted in his loyalty to the outfit.

To him the shooting of Happy Jack, once he felt assured that the wound was not necessarily fatal, became of secondary importance.

It was all in behalf of the Flying U; and if the bullet which laid Happy Jack upon the ground was also the means of driving the hated Dots from that neighborhood, he felt, in his slow, phlegmatic way, that it wasn't such a catastrophe as some of the others seemed to think.

Of course, he wouldn't want Happy to die; but he didn't believe, after all, that Happy was going to do anything like that.