Eli and Charlie Sisters are hired killers, headed to San Francisco and the gold country for their latest job. Eli, our narrator, is questioning his choice of profession and showing compassion for his slow, one-eyed horse Tub. His laconic, off-beat, and humorous musings set the tone for this pleasant Western story.
Eli is most concerned with the question of what makes a man's life good. His vision of the perfect future is the quiet, orderly life of a shopkeeper; Charlie would like to become a rich, dissolute man like their employer the Commodore. Over the course of their travels, the Sisters brothers encounter a number of people who offer other potential models, such as their current target Hermann Warm who lifted himself up by his bootstraps using his own ingenuity. Eli's consideration of the various lifestyles provides the thematic underpinnings to the story.
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