When you're shootin', remember that I got pretty close to everything I own staked on you.

There's the stranger gettin' his four dollars ready." Silent took his place with the four dollars in his hand.
"Are you ready ?" he called.
"Let her go!" said Dan, apparently without the least excitement.
Jim Silent threw the coins, and he threw them so as to increase his chances as much as possible.

A little snap of his hand gave them a rapid rotary motion so that each one was merely a speck of winking light.

He flung them high, for it was probable that Whistling Dan would wait to shoot until they were on the way down.

The higher he threw them the more rapidly they would be travelling when they crossed the level of the markman's eye.
As a shout proclaimed the throwing of the coins, Dan whirled, and it seemed to the bystanders that a revolver exploded before he was fully turned; but one of the coins never rose to the height of the throw.
There was a light "cling!" and it spun a dozen yards away.