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HOPALONG'S DECISION
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the Three Triangle, followed eight hours later by ten from the O-Bar-O. The outfits of the Star Circle and the Barred Horseshoe, eighteen in all, came next and had scarcely dismounted when those of the C—80 and the Double Arrow, fretting at the delay, rode up. With the sixteen from the Bar—20 the force numbered seventy-five resolute and pugnacious cowpunchers, all aching to wipe out the indignities suffered.
