"He ought to know better'n to take to _my_ trail." "He's fast with his gun," suggested Shorty.
"Don't I know that ?" said Silent.

"If Alvarez, an' Bradley, an' Hunter, an' God knows how many more could come up out of their graves, they'd tell jest how quick he _is_ with a six-gun.

But I'm the one man on the range that's faster." Shorty was eloquently mute.
"I ain't askin' you to take my word for it," said Jim Silent.

"Now that he's after me, I'm glad of it.

It had to come some day.