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Two glasses of Dennis's poison ratified a deal. Two thousand sheep and four hundred cattle had changed hands, and Flanagan's order-to- pay was safely stowed away in the knotted end of his handkerchief.
-"Been havin' a go in your way?" Dennis asked Cabell. Sinking his wounded pride in the office of district gossip, he smiled, cringed, served them out of his private bottle.