"It is necessary that you should know more than you have guessed, for your own protection.
If you were like most other women I would not tell you the truth, but would try to shield you from it.

As it is you should know.

There is only one other man in the Rocky Mountains more dangerous than Bill Quade.

He is Culver Rann, up at Tete Jaune.

They are partners--partners in crime, in sin, in everything that is bad and that brings them gold.