He also added that a man was a fool to quit a game just when a winning hand had been dealt him.
It was held by the thousands of hero-worshipping chechaquos that Daylight was a man absolutely without fear.

But Bettles and Dan MacDonald and other sourdoughs shook their heads and laughed as they mentioned women.

And they were right.

He had always been afraid of them from the time, himself a lad of seventeen, when Queen Anne, of Juneau, made open and ridiculous love to him.

For that matter, he never had known women.