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CHAPTER XI

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By Lilith Humphrey

CHAPTER XI

WAS a short
scene of
vio-
lence in the west.

a pistol
terrified but resolved
the conflict
extinguished.

my
wife,
obtained my enemy.
She left me walking up
to my adversary. I discovered no
execution