And once more Judge Witberg impacted his features on a fist and was sent to grass.
“I will have you arrested,” he sobbed as he lay.
“That's what Patsy said.”
“A brutal—-sniff, sniff,—and unprovoked—sniff, sniff—assault.”
“That's what Patsy said.”
“I will surely have you arrested.”
“Speaking slangily, not if I can beat you to it.”
And with that, Carter Watson departed down the canyon, mounted his horse, and rode to town.
An hour later, as Judge Witberg limped up the grounds to his hotel, he was arrested by a village constable on a charge of assault and battery preferred by Carter Watson.
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