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with the rough demand "what have you got to say about it." Quick as thought the other drinking man sat down his glass pulled a wide-mouthed Derringer from his pocket stuck it in Pike's ribs and fired. "Pike" fell. The stranger put up his pistol, finished his drink, and then turning the body of the dead Pike over with his foot - said very quietly "that man would have killed somebody directly"- Major B. a fat jovial German who had earned some distinction in the Volunteer service in the war of Rebellion, kept an eating house in Julesburg, which, as the viands were fair, the charges reasonable and the Major very courteous, did an excellent