"Are you mad?
Have you lost your reason?
Would you _face_ him ?" Buck Daniels winced, but he then shook his head doggedly.
"He had his chance down in Brownsville," he said.

"And he didn't take it.

Why?
Because my back was turned?
Well, he could of got in front of me if he'd been terrible anxious.

I've seen Dan in action; he's seen _me_ in action! Maybe he's seen too much.

They've been stranger things than that, in this world!" He hitched his belt so that the butt of his revolver came farther forward.