They were such men as one could judge at a glance, and Pierre made that instinctive motion for his six-gun.

"The girl," Jim Boone was saying, "kept you pretty busy tryin' to make a break, and if she could do anything maybe you'd have a pile of trouble with one of them guardin' you.

But if I'd had a good look at you, lad, I'd never have let Jack take the job of guardin' you." "Thanks," answered Pierre dryly.
"You got reason; I can see that.

Here's the point, Pierre.

I know young men because I can remember pretty close what I was at your age.
I wasn't any ladies' lap dog, at that, but time and older men molded me the way I'm going to mold you.