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CHAPTER III TROOPER SHANNON'S QUARREL
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There was bitter frost in the darkness outside when two young men stood talking in the stables of a little outpost lying a long ride back from the settlement in the lonely prairie. One leaned against a manger with a pipe in his hand, while the spotless, softly-gleaming harness hung up behind him showed what his occupation had been. The other stood bolt upright with lips set, and a faint grayness which betokened1 strong emotion showing through his tan. The lantern above them flickered2 in the icy draughts3, and from out of the shadows beyond its light came the stamping of restless, horses and the smell of prairie hay which is pungent4 with the odors of wild peppermint5.
The two lads, and they were very little more, were friends, in spite of the difference in their upbringing, for there are few distinctions between caste and caste in that country where manhood is still esteemed6 the greatest thing, and the primitive7 virtues8 count for more than wealth or intellect. Courage and endurance still command respect in the new Northwest, and that both the lads possessed9 them was made evident by the fact that they were troopers of the Northwest police, a force of splendid cavalry10 whose duty it is to patrol the wilderness11 at all seasons and in all weathers, under scorching
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roster
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