"If he'd killed me, and if he'd even covered me with his rifle, he'd be sure to let daylight through me at double the distance.

I shouldn't have been any better off, nor you either.

If I'd killed _him_, it would have been your duty as sheriff to put me in jail; and I reckon it wouldn't have broken your heart, Jim Dunn, to have got rid of _two_ rivals instead of one.

Hullo! Where are you going ?" "Going ?" said Dunn hoarsely.

"Going to the Carquinez Woods, by God! to kill him before her.