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Chapter 10 A JOURNEY TO SATAN'S KINGDOM

Word Count: 1571    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

"Quit crowding there, will you?" "Say, are you looking for troub

anation again. Then he said, slowly scanning the faces around him-"Mr. Coroner,

onfusion. Thomas was relea

sheriff told him. "Bob, give him thirty da

nce of spite, but Jeff exhibited no resentment and left for the county town in

ent and babbled questions wherever he moved. They would cling to his arm in their eagerness,

ok us through the Willows, which we threaded at dusk. We were passing

," he

es, plain to the sight. She was black and stark, bare

e mountain village, "you done heard that shootin

us all my facul

t shot-that must

hose it was,"

, because it might have been one, sort of drawn out. But I was watching Jeff's

ow did i

to her-sharper than a six-shooter-and

at was the 30-30. It just beat Jeff to the ma

ed lamely. "Nobody would

bring back the feller who shot Bud, to-night or to-morrow. He was hiding in that dark hall back of Thomas, just waiting for a chan

know where

d in that passage to find out who did. Sure enough, a feller had braced himself wit

pleased as a boy wit

ent sneaking along the hall, a-feeling his way so as not to make a noise, he stuck his hand into it. Then he leaned with that hand bracing him, while he waited for Bud. Do you get that

d. We put up at Kelley's place in the Kingdom, and the sheriff had a few

off just after supper. But he'll be here in the morning

a talk, that's all. D

ectors, one was a cowboy, and a miner sat next him. Opposite me was a long, lank, youthful-appearing man, who

criticism. That might hurt his feelings and the sensibilities of the other diners. No; instead, one glances good-naturedly about

although it is true that the gentleman's table manners were offensive. Then he leaned t

at manner of man we had to deal with. Because, when a man of pluck receives a blow that hurts, he first looks seri

world by the tail with a

you, anyhow, Slim. You're under arr

" the other

riff of

rry. I'll go alon

n Badger. Slim Terry faced it. A greenish pallor showed near his

d you shoot

es

us abo

is forehead and down to his chin,

ashion. I ain't been in this town for six months till the day of the shooting. Yes, I was scare

"Who sent

ge of town until dark, and then I sneaked up back of the Fashion. Nobody seen me. Somebody'd told me Bud Walton would likel

old yo

here. I didn't know he was the sheriff then. By and by a boy come in and the sheriff went out. Then all at once Bud Walton run in at the door and pulled a gun. And then I let him have it. I plugged him square. Couldn't miss at that d

with scant sympathy. Their disapproval was obvious. Ev

son, Terry, for shooting th

ould kill me some day, the same as he'd done to a l

g, judge," cried a tre

r hair was disordered and hung in lank wisps about her face, but she gave no thought to that. With her red arms bare to the elbow, a

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Contents

Chapter 1 LAFE JOHNSON ARRIVES AT THE LAZY L RANCH Chapter 2 CERTAIN COMPLICATIONS RESULT Chapter 3 CONCERNING A BABY'S WAIL Chapter 4 OUT OF A JOB Chapter 5 AN INCIPIENT LOVE AFFAIR Chapter 6 DISCOMFITURE OF A GUNFIGHTER Chapter 7 JOHNSON IS ELECTED SHERIFF OF BADGER Chapter 8 A FEUD AND WHAT CAME OF IT Chapter 9 AN INQUEST AND A SURPRISE Chapter 10 A JOURNEY TO SATAN'S KINGDOM Chapter 11 A WAITRESS TO THE RESCUE
Chapter 12 THE SHERIFF SETTLES A CONJUGAL DISPUTE
Chapter 13 AND HETTY COMES TO BADGER TO LIVE
Chapter 14 THE SHERIFF ENSNARED
Chapter 15 HOW HE WON A WIFE
Chapter 16 THE GUNFIGHTER RETURNS AND DELAYS WEDDING
Chapter 17 JOHNSON MEETS A FRIEND OF HETTY'S
Chapter 18 A SACRIFICE AND ITS PUNISHMENT
Chapter 19 BUFFALO JIM GIVES WISE COUNSEL
Chapter 20 THE SHERIFF PURGES TOWN OF BADGER
Chapter 21 A FIGHT IN THE DARK
Chapter 22 CAPTURE OF MOFFATT, THE GUNMAN
Chapter 23 THE WEDDING
Chapter 24 THE BRIDE IS LOST
Chapter 25 JOHNSON BECOMES BOSS OF THE ANVIL
Chapter 26 ENTERS TROUBLE
Chapter 27 A CLEVER WOMAN AND A MISUNDERSTANDING
Chapter 28 RECONCILIATION-MRS. VINING EXPERIENCES A CHANGE OF HEART
Chapter 29 LAFE HELPS A DESERTER
Chapter 30 AND DISCOVERS HETTY'S BROTHER
Chapter 31 GREAT EXPECTATIONS IN JOHNSON FAMILY
Chapter 32 BIRTH OF LAFE JOHNSON, JR.
Chapter 33 JOHNSON ONCE MORE IN ROLE OF SHERIFF
Chapter 34 HE ARRESTS A SUSPECT
Chapter 35 THE DEATH DICE
Chapter 36 RESPONSIBILITY SITS HEAVILY ON LAFE
Chapter 37 BUT THE BOSS AGAIN PROVES HIS METTLE
Chapter 38 HOW A MOFFATT HENCHMAN WAS OUSTED
Chapter 39 NEWS FROM BUFFALO JIM
Chapter 40 HE ARRIVES TO VISIT THE JOHNSONS
Chapter 41 A NIGHT RIDE AND DEATH OF BUFFALO JIM
Chapter 42 MIDDLE LIFE
Chapter 43 MOFFATT ONCE MORE
Chapter 44 THE DUEL IN THE MALPAIS
Chapter 45 THE END
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