Terry listened, fascinated. He was having the workings of his father's mind re-created for him and spread plainly before his eyes. And there was a certain terror and also a certain attractiveness about what he discovered.
"It sounds, maybe, like an easy thing to do, to just stick on the trail of them that you know are worse crooks than you. But it ain't. I've tried it. I've seen Black Jack pass up ten thousand like it was nothing, because the gent that had it come by it honest. But I can't do it, speaking in general. But I'll tell you more about the old man."
"Thank you," said Terry, "but--"
"And when you're with us--"
"You see," said Terry firmly, "I plan to do the work you asked me to do-- kill what you wanted killed on the range. And when I've worked off the money I owe you--"
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