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Goober and Johnny spent the day around Silver Bar. They heard that Austin was paying the expenses of shipping Slade's body back to San Francisco. The big sheriff was pleasant enough when they talked with him at his office, and Nolan admitted that the truth had been handled carefully at the inquest.
"No use puttin' the deadwood on Austin's kid," he told them, "even if it was self-defence. Least said, soonest mended. That's the way I look at it. The kid was drunk. You both seen him."