report, and at the same moment he
stopped, turned slowly half round, and sank down in a heap like an empty
sack.
I hurried to him; he had fallen almost as a tailor sits, but his head
was between his knees. I lifted it gently; blood was oozing from a hole
in the forehead. The men were about me; I heard them say:
"A derned good shot! Took him in the back of the head. Jarvis kin
shoot!"
I rose to my feet. Jarvis was standing inside the fence supported by
some one; blood was welling from his bared left shoulder.
"I ain't much hurt," he said, "but I guess the Sheriff's got it bad."
The men moved on, drawing me with them, through the gate to where the
Sheriff lay. Martin turned him over on his back. They opened his shirt,
and there on the broad chest were two little blue marks, each in the
centre of a small mound of pink flesh.
4TH April, 1891.
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