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 and clubs more valuable than pictures. But desire, which is a thing apart from reason, clamored for the bone.

"I wish this picture bone," he said presently. "It is of no use, neither is it of any value. Yet I wish it."

Strong Hand and Fish Catch looked at one another stealthily and then at No Man. It would be impossible to say which sprang upon him first, nor at whose hands he suffered the most. They so choked, beat and clubbed him that he screamed for mercy. One