Deadwood Dick's Big Deal; or, The Gold Brick of Oregon — page 57: what you’re looking at

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DEADWOOD DICK. 59 ere both sinful enough, but in your eyes I am the worst. * We-cannot live tegether; an impassable barrier separates us. Your-#im is to crush that-barrier, but you will have to crush’ me first. It shall be pistols, thirty paces, There ‘necd be no trifling, as we both can shoot!” “3 will not fight you, madam. My only cim is to"kill the man who tock you from my home!” Dick replied, cooily. “You shall meet me. You shall fight!” she cried, ex- Citedly. “As enemies, you*and I cannot both live upon this éarth. One of us mut make room for the other!” “I repeat, I will not!” Dick rephed. “Go your way and “Rejoice!” She spcke the’word with intense bitterness, “Which told thatvherspresent life was far more miserable than it was happy. ‘Dick smiled fairitly as he stw her bitterness, but said “Rothing. “Rejoice!” she repeated, after a moment. “Yes, I will rejoice, after a while. You won't ight me?” “You ere a coward. You dare not!” ~ Dith’s derisive ‘simile was the answer, and it scemed to “rtaddenvher,’ for she uttered a fierce ery, and raising her revolver fired at him. Turning she fied from the spot, never once looking back, to learn the result of her shot. ‘Dick staggered a’ little, and then straightened up. a he said, séBerly, “do you’ not believe she’s .. “Creat bam-bone, “boyee, ‘et Go look powerfully that “Tf not: étary, what power‘is it thet accutsed Chester over her, as well as Stephen Reymond?” ¥ull, Dick, T did’ pt , arter She told me onc’t mot to say fiothin® But dein’ it’s you I'll tell 7 ‘thet Chester is really Her brother, an” guilty 0” half Sgeer meen re any Doe ee tw "2tter him. It'were to git hi: IA prea ne ooh fad i: Comicbookxs.cony®