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I wish to present you with a proposition. I know where Arthur Burns is — The Proposition

"I wish to present you with a proposition. I know where Arthur Burns is. It is is a godforsaken place. The blacks wont go there, nor the trackers. Not even my own men. I suppose, in time, the bounty hunters will get him. But I have other plans. I aim to bring him down. I aim to show that he is a man like any other. I aim to hurt him. And what will most hurt him? Well, Ive thought long and hard about that. And Ive realized, Mr. Burns, that I must become a little more inventive in my methods."
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