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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: true. Yes, he had followed Miss Mackenzie's trail into the hills
and found her at a mountain ranch-house. She had been there a
couple of days, and was about to set out for the Rocking Chair
with the owner of the place, when he arrived and volunteered to
see her as far as her uncle's ranch.
"I reckon there ain't any use asking you if you seen anything of
Wolf Leroy's outfit," said Forbes, a weather-beaten Westerner
with a shrewd, wrinkled face.
"No, I reckon there's no use asking me that," returned Collins,
with a laugh that deceptively seemed to include the older man in
the joke.
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