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Tales of Trail and Town.   “What do you know of the deputy’s
attentions to Mrs. Beasley?  Were they enough to justify the
husband’s jealousy?  Did he make love to her?”  The constable
hesitated.  He was a narrow man, with a crude sense of the
principles rather than the methods of justice.  He remembered
the deputy’s admiration; he now remembered, even more strongly,
the object of that admiration, simulating with her pretty arms
the gestures of the barkeeper, and the delight it gave them.  He
was loyal to his dead leader, but he looked up and down, and
then said, slowly and half-defiantly:  “Well, judge, he was a
man.”    They say that one afternoon, when a low mist of rain
had settled over the sodden Bolinas Plain, a haggard,
bedraggled, and worn-out woman stepped down from a common
“freighting wagon” before the doorway where Beasley still sat;
that, coming forward, he caught her in hi