Jess of the RiverG.W. Dillingham Company, 1914 - 329 pages |
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Page 103 - Your money or your life.' What would you do in such a case ?" "If I had a pistol handy I would blow out his brains, and if not I would give him my purse and call him a scoundrelly assassin." "You would be wrong in both cases. If you killed him, you would be hanged, for you have no right to take the law into your own hands...