I knew, before that, how you rode and risked your life to bring Dan Barry back here.

Surely those are proofs of friendship!" Buck Daniels laughed unpleasantly.

He laid a large hand on the shoulder of the doctor and answered: "If them was the only proofs, doc, I wouldn't feel the way I do.

Proofs of friendship?
Dan Barry has saved me from the--rope!--and he's saved me from dyin' by the gun of Jim Silent.
He took me out of a rotten life and made me a man that could look honest men in the face!" He paused, swallowing hard, and the doctor's misty, overworked eyes lighted with some comprehension.

He had felt from the first a certain danger in this big fellow, a certain reckless disregard of laws and rules which commonly limit the actions of ordinary men.