I wouldn't stay in the darned town overnight, the way they're running things now, if it wasn't for my business.

Ever since they made Tom Perkins captain there's been hell to pay all round.

I can hold my own; I'm up where they don't dare tackle me; but you take a fool's advice and pull out before the Captain gets his eagle eye on you.

Talk like you was slinging around last night is about as good a trouble-raiser as if you emptied both them guns of yours into that crowd out there." "You're asking me to run before there's anything to run away from." Jack's lips began to show the line of stubbornness.

"I haven't quarreled with the Captain, except that little fuss a month ago, when he was hammering that peon because he couldn't talk English; I'm not going to.