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badge back now, Buck." 

With shaking fingers Calliope began to unfasten the disc of metal from
his shirt. 

"Easy there!" said Buck Patterson.  "You keep that badge right where it
is, Calliope Catesby.  Don't you dare to take it off till the day your
mother leaves this town.  You'll be city marshal of Quicksand as long
as she's here to know it.  After I stir around town a bit and put 'em
on I'll guarantee that nobody won't give the thing away to her.  And
say, you leather-headed, rip-roarin', low-down son of a locoed
cyclone, you follow that advice she give me! I'm goin' to take some of
it myself, too." 

"Buck," said Calliope feelingly, "ef I don't I hope I may--" 

"Shut up," said Buck.  "She's a-comin' back." 

End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of Heart of the West 

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