I know a bit about the law." "Maybe by experience ?" It was an odd thing to watch the three, every one of them a practiced fighter, every one of them primed for trouble, but each ostentatiously keeping his hands away from the holsters.
"What we might have done if we had come to a pinch," said Haines, "is one thing, and what we did do is another.

Barry was started and off before we had a chance to show teeth, my friend, and you never even caught the flash of our guns.

If he'd waited but he didn't.

There's nothing left for us to do except say good-by." The little dusty man stroked his moustaches thoughtfully.

He had gone out there hoping against hope that his chance might come--to trick the two into violence, even to start an arrest for reasons which he knew his posse would swear to; but it must be borne in mind that Pete Glass was a careful man by instinct.