“99 . . . 98 . . . 97. How long would it take, really, three minutes? He could endure a lecture from this traitorous, rebel blowhard for that long. Think of the good it would engender, letting this traumatized and concussed band of stragglers feel satisfaction that they had done all they could to save a life, even a life as wretched as that godless savage writhing at the end of a rope in a slow, agonizing chokehold. . . . 86 . . . 85 . . . 84. At zero he would carry out the sentence of death exa...ctly as he planned, throwing the mongrel fugitive over the cliff just to hear his neck snap. Cross had earned that. And if Two-Trees happened to die in the meantime, while this Dixie barrister salted air with his infernal stalling, Cross was fine with that. Until then he would allow only passing snippets of the lawyer’s diatribe to pierce his concentration. “Furthermore, jurisprudence of the Territory would dictate the compelling principle of ex injuria jus non oritur.” . . . 77 . . . 76 . .MoreLessRead More Read Less
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