By heavens, I am horribly ashamed of my injustice." A minute or so of this fluent apologizing calmed the bushwhacker's rage and soothed his injured feelings.
"But you oughter be keerful how you talk that way to a white man," he said.

"No white man, if he's a gentleman, can stan' being told he hain't got no pluck." "Certainly," assented Coronado.

"Well, I have apologized.

What more can I do ?" "Square, you're all right now," said the forgiving Texan, stretching out his bony, dirty hand and grasping Coronado's.

"But don't say it agin.
White men can't stan' sech talk.