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Max Brand. Soft Metal
Soft Metal
Table of Contents
I. — A DIVE INTO BLACKNESS
II. — TAKING JIM'S PLACE
III. — BACK TO MONKVILLE
IV. — AT THE BLACKSMITH SHOP
V. — AL RICHARDS ARRIVES
VI. — GETTING THE DROP ON BOB
VII. — A COCK-AND-BULL STORY
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VIII. — A VISIT TO THE SHERIFF
IX. — RICHARDS AND THE INTERLOCUTOR
X. — THE HEEL OF ACHILLES
XI. — REMOVING A TALISMAN
XII. — THE MAN-KILLER FLEES
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THE END
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Max Brand
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He leaned to look more closely. There was not a shadow of a doubt. This was the man who had sat in with him at that last game in the town. This was the man who had risen and flung down the cards when a friend stooped and whispered something hurriedly in his ear. This was the man who had jumped up from his chair and refused to play another second with him.
This was the man whom Givain, swinging out of his own chair, had clipped underneath the chin with a driving fist and dumped in a comer of the room with staring eyes. This was the man who had risen, shooting, with a gun in either hand, and with that gun smashed at least two windows while Givain was going through the door. This was the man who had shouted for a horse and men to follow the gambler. This was the man who had led the pursuit all the day, riding a tall, red roan horse. A dozen times Givain had caught him in the clear circle of his field glasses. He had studied that face so intimately that he could almost see the lump that must have grown out where his own hard knuckles had landed. And this was the girl's Jim.
