It isn't possible to be a gambler
and a man of honor. If you've seven hundred dollars that you lost to
Duff at cards, put it in your pocket and get out of Paloma as soon as
you can. Duff won't need the money, anyway. He's down at the Mansion
House, dying of a bullet wound that he got through his last piece of
trickery. I hate to speak harshly of a dying man, but I'd like to see
you get a grain or two of common sense into your head, boy."
Again Farnsworth flushed, but three or four seasoned Arizona men who
stood near by added their advice, in line with that of Mr. Hawkins.
Clarence soon edged away.
An hour after daylight Jim Duff died. Dr. Furniss and the others who
were with the gambler at the last were unable to state that Duff had
offered any expression of regret for his evil life, or for his last
wicked acts.
Jim Duff died as he had lived.
George Ashby was sent to an asylum and his property sold for his
benefit. After a year he was discharged as cured. He has vanished,
swallowed up in some other community, and nothing more has been heard of
him.
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