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Man with No Name- Good Sleeper

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  1. He lay for a moment, listening to the groaning and crackling of Kirp’s bed, beyond the thin partition, then closed his eyes and was almost instantly asleep.
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  3. As always, the hunter awoke instantly and completely at the precise time he had fixed in his mind. He lay for a moment testing the darkness with his senses, then sat up. The storm had long since passed and the first pale glow of dawn touched the eastern sky.
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  6. The bounty hunter rolled over on his back, pillowed his head on crossed arms, tilted the flat-crowned hat over his eyes and was almost instantly asleep. He slept a precise eighteen minutes, then awoke as abruptly and fully as he had dropped off.
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  8. His timing was perfect. In the distance, the troop of bandits with their prisoner were just emerging from the rocky pass.
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  10. - Blood for a Dirty Dollar, chapters 12 and 13
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