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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 18: Settling Accounts
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It had lodged down just at the bottom of the shoulder bone.

I am glad to say he was able to get it out.

When he had done, he told his patient what the bush ranger had said; and Captain Whitney insisted upon going out to him." "It won't do him any harm, will it ?" Kate asked anxiously.
"No, my dear, or Mr.Ruskin would not have let him go.

I saw him as he went out, and shook hands with him and, except that nasty bandage over his face, he looked quite himself again.

As I told you, a broken collarbone is a mere nothing and, now we know where the bullet went and have got it out, there is no occasion for the slightest anxiety.
"Here they come again, so you can judge for yourself." A very few words passed between Reuben and Kate; for Mrs.Barker, who saw how nervous the girl was, at once began to ask him questions about what the bush ranger had said.
"He has made a confession, Mrs.Barker, which your husband has written down, and Mr.Ruskin and Smithson have signed.


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