"But strangely enough, I became a little closer to de Gautet, for I discovered that he shared one of my chief interests, which is horseďŹesh. He was an authority, of the true kind who never pretends more than he knows, and in the saddle he was nearly as good as I was myself, which is to say he would have been topnotch among any horsemen in the world â even the Cheyennes of the American plains, who are the best I know."
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