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No , I 'd advise you to let me go and take your chances rather than kill me and wait . '' Such talk as this made a great impression on some of the rustlers and again opened up the subject of letting Larkin off . But the majority held firm and the sentence stood . It was perhaps eight o'clock when the party of four approached Larkin and roused him up . This time his hands were bound behind his back and he noticed that the masked rustler was fastening them tightly but with a rotten rawhide . This peculiar circumstance caused a wild thrill to flash all through Larkin 's being . Perhaps , after all , here was the weak link in the rustler 's chain .