Come in and have one on the house.
There ain't nothing but silence around this place and it's getting on my nerves." Buck Daniels obeyed the invitation at once, and behind him, stepping softly, some of them entering with their hats in their hands and on tiptoe, came a score of the inhabitants of Brownsville.

They lined the bar up and down its length; not a word was spoken; but every head turned as at a given signal towards the quiet man at the end of the room..