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a dull, tallow-colored face destitute of hair and all expression,
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always cool and collected.
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But when a quarrel took place and blood shed, his hog-like eyes would
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gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend.
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[I'm going to skip a little bit.]
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Terrible stories were circulated in camp of horrid crimes committed by
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him when bearing another name in the Cherokee nation in Texas.
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And before we left Fronteras, a little girl of ten years was found
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in the chaparral foully violated and murdered.
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The mark of a huge hand on her little throat pointed out him
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as the ravisher as no other man had such a hand.
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But though all suspected, no one charged him with the crime.