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‘I think they were waiting to hear some good news from an agent they sent after us,’ you reply, as you walk together towards the place where Kate has parked your roadster. ‘They’ve a long wait if they’re still expecting him to call.’

Kate looks at you with a puzzled expression, and you recount in detail the events that befell the team during the escape from Ciudad Juarez. As you drive out of Benson, you tell her how Frankland, Haskell, and Knott met their deaths, and how you avenged them in your showdown with their murderer, Helmut Varken, at the Tombstone courthouse.

‘What d’you think’s gonna happen when Mad Dog finds out that you’ve killed Varken?’ she asks, nervously.

‘Well, he ain’t gonna be happy, that’s f’sure, especially after what we did at Juarez. I don’t know what he’ll do. I guess we’ll just have to wait an’ see.’

Unfortunately, you do not have to wait long.

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