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Show JG-1 grabbed his gun nnll rod strnjght to the place where \H' wa~ hid. But \Ye di<ln 't wait. 'r e started through th wood~ 011 a run. The wo <1~ warn't thick, so I look d ov r n1y Hhoulcl )r, to dodge th bull t, and twice I . en lfarn y CO\' r Bu ·k \Yi.th hi , gun; and th n he rod 3 a\vny th way he co1ne- to g t hi:-; hat, [reckon, but I couldn't se . vY e never :toppe<l running till w got hmnc. The old gentlernan's eye · blazed a 1nin utct'was plea"'ure, mainly, Ijudg cl- th n hi· face ·ortof .·1noothcd down, and h ay , ki1Hl of g nile: "I don't lik that shooting fro1n behi1Hl a lnud1. \Yhy didn't you ,'t p in t.o t h ' road, 1n y boy r ., "The f 'hephenl ·ons don't, fatl1er. Th y al\Yays lakr ad- ~ ., vanLage. l\ij:-;-· Charlot.t lte h eld her head up like a qncrn whil Buek was telling hi · tale, and h r no lril spr cHl and h r cy : f-lunpped. The two youDg 1nen lookecl clark, but n ever .·ai<l nothing. l\Ii Sophia .·h turn d pnl , but the col nr cmne back when :he found th 1nan \<varn't hurt. Soon as I oulcl g t 13u k down by the corn-cribs under the tr cs by ourselv , I .·ay .. · : "Did you want to kill hin1, Buck?" ' \Yell, I b t I did." . "\Yhat did he d to you?'' "Hin1? II' never don n thing to llH':' ,, ,,,.. ell, th n, what did you want to kill hin1 for r ,, "\Yhy, nothing- only it' on account of the f ud.'' " \Yhat. 's a feud r " "'\\'"l1y, '"·h r was you raised? 1) n't you l<no\Y what a fend is~ ' "N'cyer heard of it before-tell1ne about it:' · "'""ell," says Buck, "a fflud is this way. A 1nan ha.· a ({Harrel with another man, and kills him ; then that oth r Jnan' brother kills hin~; then the other brother , on both ·ide8, goes l •'L'UDS. ] Q,) for one a not her; 1 h n lh cou ·ins chip in--111 1 h ,. . 1 1 , , . ( l Y -c ll l ( - ) V <'~ 1ybody: k1lle<l off, and ihPr ain"t no 1n n t'nll. But it : · knul of low, an<l tak<.' a long titne." ~ 1 fa. thi one be<'n g ing on long, Bnrk? ., '· \\ ell, I should ?~ecl~·on I it started thirty .. ' I \ ), . I I ' I I I I l r I' I ;, I II ,I •I I I I I I I . Ml:-\S GJIA'ULOTTE. y ar ngo, or SOll1\'l'S ·11011 0' tl 1,} · · • 1 re. 1cre was trouble 'bout ,'Olll thing and t h<.'n a law ·· uit' t o e ttl · . ' l 1t; and the u1t w nt agin on, of th JnPn, and o he up and . hot. th man that won the uit - "·bich h \~Ou~d naturally do, of cour . Anybody would.' ~ \\ hat was the trouble about., Buck ?-land ? ' 'I r ckon 1naybe- I d n't kn w.'' |