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VII THE REAL LEOPOLD
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Two hours later a horseman pushed his way between tumbled and tangled1 briers along the bottom of a deep ravine.
He was hatless, and his stained and ragged2 khaki betokened3 much exposure to the elements and hard and continued usage. At his saddle-bow a carbine swung in its boot, and upon either hip4 was strapped5 a long revolver. Ammunition6 in plenty filled the cross belts that he had looped about his shoulders.
Grim and warlike as were his trappings, no less grim was the set of his strong jaw7 or the glint of his gray eyes, nor did the patch of brown stain that had soaked through the left shoulder of his jacket tend to lessen8 the martial9 atmosphere which surrounded him. Fortunate it was for the brigands10 of the late Yellow Franz that none of them chanced in the path of Barney Custer that day.
For nearly two hours the man had ridden downward out of the high hills in search of a dwelling11 at which he might ask the way to Tann; but as yet he had passed but a single house, and that a long untenanted ruin. He was wondering what had become of all the inhabitants of Lutha when his horse came to a sudden halt before an obstacle which entirely12 blocked the narrow trail at the bottom of the ravine.
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tangled
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entirely
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astonishment
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outskirts
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majesty
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mentality
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solely
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doorway
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noted
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irrelevantly
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fugitive
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espouse
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forefinger
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