'Hear what Virgil?'

'That Marcel, fella, the one who got run off from the Widder Rhodes and that Chinaman's place, I hear he got done shot down in the street. Found him over in front of the tradin' post.'

'Shot down? Fer what? The Widow get to him or somethin'? Or the Choo?'

'No, no, seems a bunch of hooligans took off with his nephew.'

'Well, I'll be. Things are goin' to hell in a handbasket around here, I'll tell ya.'

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