"We've let them shoot too soon, and too often.

We should have waited for the rush." "You're a famous shot, Belmont," cried the Colonel.

"I've heard of you as one of the cracks.

Don't you think you could pick off their leader ?" "Which is he ?" "As far as I can make out, it is that one on the white camel on their right front.

I mean the fellow who is peering at us from under his two hands." Belmont thrust in his cartridge and altered the sights.