| Suddenly the girl pitched sideways and a split second later the young man heard
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| the distant shot
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| He dived for some rocks and watched as more bullets hit the girl
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| The young man looked to her body and as she died, he worked out where the shots
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| were coming from
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| He knew death was going to walk on those shooters
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| Chapter 6:
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| There is one thing a white man should never do
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| And that is move towards an Apache because you will never get there
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| How do you catch dust in the wind?
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| The young man saw the way they were coming by the movement of insects and birds
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| And he knew where to go
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| Like the snake, he slithered into a dry arroyo and worked behind the shots in
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| an arc
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| After a while he saw them: three men, three white men clad in skins
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| And they walked confidently towards the girl
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| The young man knew somewhere behind them another one held the horses,
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| making four all together
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| He moved towards that man
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| The killers could wait, let them enjoy the hunt before they went under
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| He found the one by the horses, he was young too
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| And he died quietly with a surprised indignant look on his face
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| The young man tied the horses to a tree, and they’d come in handy later,
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| four horses and equipment
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| By the girl’s body, two men knelt beside her while another stood guard
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| The guard suddenly cried out as his head exploded in a bubble of pink spray and
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| he fell forward
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| The other two went to ground and nervously called out to each other
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| «Do you see the bastard?»
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| «No, he must be close.»
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| But he wasn’t
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| The Sharps sporting rifle will reach a long way in the right hands
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| The young man took careful aim and the smaller of the two men felt his right
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| leg blast away
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| The bigger, heavier man sank as far into the ground as he could make himself go
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| But still, he could not see where the young man was |