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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: conversation with McWilliams. The latter's gun had found again
its holster, but his brown, graceful hand hovered close to its
butt.
"Seems like a long time since the Lazy D has been honored by a
visit from Mr. Bannister," he was saying, with gentle irony.
"That's right. So I have come to make up for lost time," came
Bannister's quiet retort.
Miss Messiter did not know much about Wyoming human nature in the
raw, but she had learned enough to be sure that the soft courtesy
of these two youths covered a stark courage that might leap to
life any moment. Wherefore she interposed.
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