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The Seventh Man

CHAPTER XV
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They're out there, all of 'em, waitin' in the rocks.

For God's sake take my gun and pump me full of lead!" He threw his arms out, clear of his holster and turned that Barry might draw his revolver.

Vaguely he knew that Haines and Buck had drawn swiftly close to him from either side; vaguely he heard the cry of Kate; but all that he clearly understood was the merciless, unmoved face of Barry.

It was pretense; with all his being he wanted to die, but when Barry made no move to strike he turned desperately to the others.
"Do the job for him.

He saved my life and then I used it to sell him.
Daniels, Haines, I got no use for livin'." "Vic," he said, "take--this!--and march to your friends outside; and when you get through them, plant a forty-five slug in your own dirty heart and then rot." Haines held out his gun with a gesture of contempt.
But Kate slipped in front of him, white and anguish.
"It was the girl you told me about, Vic ?" she said.


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