The kid and the ex-priest, Tobin, are sitting in camp while the kid repairs a strap. Tobin begins to talk about the judge and how he once saved the whole gang from massacre. Tobin clearly admires the judge, bragging about how intelligent he is, how he has traveled all over the world, and how he learned to speak Dutch from a Dutchman. Tobin also says that everyone in the gang has met the judge somewhere else before coming to be here. Finally, Tobin tells the kid how once the gang got into a fight with some Indians and ended up hiding out in a cave, low on gunpowder. They moved on and ran into the judge sitting on a rock alone. The judge joined their group and led them to a range of.....
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