You let Alton whip you off your claim in Washington, and--for I've a notion of what has happened--'most pound the head off you yesterday.

Now you want to light out, leaving him to laugh at you ?" Damer flushed a little, and a look of vindictive malice crept into his eyes as he rose.
"That's about enough!" he said.

"You're quite a different man from Alton.

I'm going on." "Sit down!" said Hallam sharply.

"I'm quite as dangerous to you.