So while Bard and Drew sat together bindin' up each other's wounds--because they was shot pretty near to pieces--they talked it over and they seen pretty clear that the girl would never marry the man that had killed her father.

Of course, old Bill Drew, he'd done the killing, but that wasn't any reason why he had to take the blame.
"They made up their minds that right there and then with the dead men lyin' all around 'em, they'd match coins to see which one would take the blame of havin' killed Piotto--meanin' that the other one would get the girl--if he could.
"And Bard lost.

So he had to take the credit of havin' killed old Piotto.

I'd of give something to have seen the two of 'em sittin' there--oozin' blood--after that marchin' was decided.

Because they tell me that Bard was as big as Drew and looked pretty much the same.
"Then Bard, he asked Drew to let him have one chance at the girl, lettin' her know first what he'd done, but jest trustin' to his power of talk.