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Authors: Max Brand
Barry Christian, his pale, sensitive face always in repose, listened calmly to the testimony. His lawyer offered a vague defense. There was really nothing to be said, and Barry Christian knew it. He was as calm as ever when he heard the jury's verdict, and also later, when he was sentenced to be hanged.
Afterward a curious reporter said to Christian: “What did Jim Silver get out of all this riding and fighting, and taking his life in his own hands?”
Christian answered: “He got the knowledge that he'd gained a friend, and that I would have a chance to think things over. No one minds dying. It's the death house that counts.”
That was characteristic of Christian. He was big enough and calm enough even to confess his own fears!
And Jim Silver?
On the day when the judge sentenced Barry Christian, Silver was far, far to the north, halting Parade at the mouth of a pass that overpeered a sweep of desolate mountains, far above the timber line. But there was a smile on the lips of Silver. The thrilling cold of the wind washed the soul of the man clean. It made him as free as the wild ducks which, in a dim, gray wedge, were hurling north above him, with the song of their freedom reaching the earth as a melancholy music.
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