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In the years of Lightning's service at the Marton farm he had only penetrated the greater foothills to the south-west as far as Dan Quinlan's homestead on two or three occasions.
His real reason for avoiding Dan Quinlan was his cold opinion that the man was unfit for white man's association. The thing that was anathema to his ideas of manhood was that Dan lived with a squaw. There were always to be found loafing about his place a number of his wife's coloured relations; and then there were offspring which he claimed no white man had the right to bring into the world -- little dusky, happy, laughing, wild creatures, with all the potentialities for evil resulting from the mixture of colour.