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"A dead man?"
"Does he strike you as a man likely to be taken alive? I look to
see a dramatic exit to the sound of cracking Winchesters."
"Yes, that would be like him," she confessed with shudder. "I
think he was made to lead a forlorn hope. Pity it won't be one
worthy of the best in him."
"I guess he does have more moments set to music than most of us,
and I'll bet, too, he has hidden way in him a list of 'Thou shalt
nots.' I read a book once by a man named Stevenson that was sure
virgin gold. He showed how every man, no matter how low he falls,
has somewhere in him a light that burns, some rag of honor for
which he is still fighting I'd hate to have to judge Leroy. Some
men, I reckon, have to buck against so much in themselves that
even failure is a kind of success for them."
"Yet you will go out to hunt him down?" she' said, marveling at
the broad sympathy of the man.
"Sure I will. My official duty is to look out for society. If
something in the machine breaks loose and goes to ripping things
to pieces, the engineer has to stop the damage, even if he has to
smash the rod that's causing the trouble.
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