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"Where're Beard and Wood?" queried Kells

"Workin' over Beard's sick hoss," replied Pearce "They'll show up

by an' by Anythin' you say goes with the Cleve?"

"No He ca,

too"

Kells sat down at the head of the table, and, taking up the little

book, he began to finger it while his pale eyes studied the men

before him

"We shuffled the deck pretty well over at Beard's," he said "Now

for the dealWho wants cards?I've organized ion I'll have absolute control, whether there're ten o down inof his name

Blicky, Jones, Williams, and others followed suit They did not

speak, but each shook hands with the leader Evidently Kells exacted

no oath, but accepted each man's free action and his word of honor

There was that about the bandit whichas

ties of blood He did not want ion who had not loyalty