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... Captain Montague Beresford Pierpoint was hardly the sort of man you would have expected to find behind the counter of a small shanty bank at Aylmer's Pike , Colorado . There was an engaging English frankness , an obvious honesty and ...
... Captain Montague Beresford Pierpoint was hardly the sort of man you would have expected to find behind the counter of a small shanty bank at Aylmer's Pike , Colorado . There was an engaging English frankness , an obvious honesty and ...
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... Captain Pierpoint's bare word ; and when they did so , they knew that Captain Pierpoint had always had the money forthcoming , on demand , without a moment's delay or a single prevarication . Captain Pierpoint walked very straight and ...
... Captain Pierpoint's bare word ; and when they did so , they knew that Captain Pierpoint had always had the money forthcoming , on demand , without a moment's delay or a single prevarication . Captain Pierpoint walked very straight and ...
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... Captain Montague Pierpoint , settled himself in a shanty in their midst , and won their confidence by his straightforward honesty , scarcely a miner in the lot would ever have dreamt of attempting to rob him . Captain Pierpoint had not ...
... Captain Montague Pierpoint , settled himself in a shanty in their midst , and won their confidence by his straightforward honesty , scarcely a miner in the lot would ever have dreamt of attempting to rob him . Captain Pierpoint had not ...
Página 147
... Captain Pierpoint's bank . Their plan was sim- plicity itself . They would go at midnight , very quietly , to the Captain's house , cut his throat as he slept , rob the precious safe , and ride off straight for the east , thus getting a ...
... Captain Pierpoint's bank . Their plan was sim- plicity itself . They would go at midnight , very quietly , to the Captain's house , cut his throat as he slept , rob the precious safe , and ride off straight for the east , thus getting a ...
Página 148
... Captain Pierpoint's securities , and well on their road towards the nearest station of the Pacific Railway . They groped along to the door of the bank shanty , and began fumbling with their wire picks at the rough lock . After a ...
... Captain Pierpoint's securities , and well on their road towards the nearest station of the Pacific Railway . They groped along to the door of the bank shanty , and began fumbling with their wire picks at the rough lock . After a ...
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