Raisin’ Hell is a profitable crop! said the man with the shotgun, and Templar was beginning to believe him. The sheriff offered Templar $50 a week; the saloon owner offered him $75. Templar had gotten drunk, and laid out almost every able-bodied man in town. But there was one more offer to come. A very rich man would pay him $5,000 for one months service as a bodyguard. When Templar gasped at the … the price, the rich man looked at him earnestly and said, “I live in constant fear of murder.”
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