It was as if he had walked out of the picture.

He suddenly seemed to be aloof from them all.
Out of the quiet burst a torrent of curses, exclamations, and shouts.
Chance drew Jim Silent and his three followers together.
"My God!" whispered Lee Haines, with a sort of horror in his voice, "it wasn't human! Did you see?
Did you see ?" "Am I blind ?" asked Hal Purvis, "an' think of me walkin' up an' bracin' that killer like he was a two-year-old kid! I figger that's the nearest I ever come to a undeserved grave, an' I've had some close calls! 'That last dollar wasn't good! It didn't ring true,' says he when he finished.

I never seen such nerve!" "You're wrong as hell," said Silent, "a _woman_ can shoot at a target, but it takes a cold _nerve_ to shoot at a man--an' this feller is yellow all through!" "Is he ?" growled Bill Kilduff, "well, I'd hate to take him by surprise, so's he'd forget himself.

He gets as much action out of a common six-gun as if it was a gatling.

He was right about that last dollar, too.