My moment had come.

The game was mine--and a ball of fire burst in my brain to race all over me.
"To hell with you!" burst out Wright incoherently.

He was frenzied.
"I'll have her or nobody else will!" "You never will," returned Sampson stridently.

"So help me God, I'd rather see her Ranger Steele's wife than yours!" While Wright absorbed that shock Sampson leaned toward him, all of hate and menace in his mien.

They had forgotten the half-drunken cowboy.
"Wright, you made me what I am," continued Sampson.