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Freckles

CHAPTER I
19/22

We'll have supper, and then I will provide you with clean clothing, wading-boots, the wire-mending apparatus, and a revolver.
The first thing in the morning, I will take you the length of the trail myself and explain fully what I want done.

All I ask of you is to come to me at once at the south camp and tell me as a man if you find this job too hard for you.

It will not surprise me.

It is work that few men would perform faithfully.

What name shall I put down ?" Freckles' gaze never left McLean's face, and the Boss saw the swift spasm of pain that swept his lonely, sensitive features.
"I haven't any name," he said stubbornly, "no more than one somebody clapped on to me when they put me on the Home books, with not the thought or care they'd name a house cat.


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