The Interlopers
What do the two men do when they meet face to face?
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Neither man does anything... they each consider murder, but neither of them can bring themselves to act of their feud.
The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilisation cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour.
The Interlopers