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doc#142 | from all sides. No man laid a hand on him, | but | the threat of violence was there. His face |
doc#142 | building. He was uttering threats in a low | but | savage voice when they closed and padlocked |
doc#143 | searching out the area. He found nothing, | but | he still refused to give up and move out |
doc#143 | Ross, mentioned later. "Everyone knew it, | but | he sort of acted like he didn't care who |
doc#143 | highly doubtful, that he killed none at all | but | merely let his reputation work for him |
doc#143 | murder in the state. It is also possible, | but | equally doubtful, that he actually shot |
doc#144 | favor". </p><p> Brenner's voice was oily, | but | Summers wasn't fooled. He moistened his |
doc#144 | silence. </p><p> Brenner continued to smile, | but | his eyes were cold. He turned and looked |
doc#144 | that Diane's information had been wrong, | but | Curt didn't interpret it this way. A man |
doc#144 | There was a light in Black's front room, | but | drawn curtains prevented any view of the |
doc#144 | Again he stood in the darkness listening, | but | there was only the scrape of a shod hoof |
doc#144 | certain now that Jess was in the house, | but | also, presumably, was Stacey Black. Curt |
doc#144 | surprise. He started to reach for his gun, | but | apparently thought better of it. </p><p> |
doc#144 | , Adams. I don't know what you're up to, | but | when Brenner" -- </p><p> "You can forget |
doc#144 | Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, | but | , before I do, I'm going to hear you admit |
doc#144 | slash the gunbarrel across Jess's face, | but | didn't finish the motion. Pistol-whipping |
doc#144 | man might come easy to someone like Jess, | but | Curt couldn't bring himself to do it. </p> |
doc#144 | fingers of his right hand twisted into a claw, | but | he didn't reach for the gun. </p><p> Curt |
doc#144 | shout up Curt's arm clear to the shoulder, | but | Jess seemed hardly aware that he had been |
doc#144 | . </p><p> Curt was in almost as bad shape, | but | he wouldn't quit. He backed Jess into a |