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pleasure to hear him, though there are folks who cannot understand any man doing his own law work if there is no one to do it for him. I've even heard men state that it is wrong to kill anyone except in battle, or without using the judge and an executioner. I have seen some get so excited about this that I have feared for my own life during the argument. There is considerable human nature yet extant. There was a powerful amount of it in Thomas Willett of the firm of Willett & Gray (now Gray & Son) in London Town.
I stayed that night in a rather better hotel than the Arizona House, for some years in England had made me over particular as to cleanliness and certain small details which did not trouble Northrop. As to Tom, he would have laid out on the prairie for six months without blankets to get at Briggs. He was a man of one idea by now. I remembered the same trait in Jack. He was accustomed to do one thing at a time, and do it thoroughly. His nature was evidence to me that Briggs had taken him at an ad-
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