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They were the last words Eli Barton ever spoke. There was a sudden flash of fire from behind the small car in the shadows--the loud crack of a revolver fired at close range, and the great cattle king dropped lifeless upon the sands of the Coorong with a bullet in his brain.
With a cry of rage Sam Gover sprang forward and the man with the lantern went down under a fierce blow upon the head.