| Salomy Jane Contributor(s): Harte, Bret (Author) |
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ISBN: 1515095177 ISBN-13: 9781515095170 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.06" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.11 lbs) 28 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Only one shot had been fired. It had gone wide of its mark, -the ringleader of the Vigilantes, -and had left Red Pete, who had fired it, covered by their rifles and at their mercy. For his hand had been cramped by hard riding, and his eye distracted by their sudden onset, and so the inevitable end had come. He submitted sullenly to his captors; his companion fugitive and horse-thief gave up the protracted struggle with a feeling not unlike relief. Even the hot and revengeful victors were content. They had taken their men alive. At any time during the long chase they could have brought them down by a rifle-shot, but it would have been unsportsmanlike, and have ended in a free fight, instead of an example. And, for the matter of that, their doom was already sealed |
