ain't for me to decide. That will be up to the judge. Mr. Minot will have to appear in court in three days' time with those other boys. Right now, however, there is a question of his bail, which is set at $20. Will you be providing that?"

"I most certainly will be."

"Then you best come with me, and we can take care of that business." The three of us walked mostly in silence back to the center of town. Mr. Earp, an obviously taciturn man, said very little. But about three-quarters of the way to the jail, he offered his assessment of the events that landed Mr. Minot in the poke.

"Seems to me Minot might have said something those Texas boys didn't cotton to. One of them jerked his hog-leg, and your man disarmed him and beat him over the head with...

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