Jarvis meanwhile produced a bottle filled with a brown liquid.
"You may think this is hoss liniment," he said, "an' p'r'aps it has been used for them purposes, but it's better fur men than animiles.

Ole Aunt Suse, who is 'nigh to a hundred, got it from the Injuns an' it's warranted to kill or cure.

It'll sting at first, but just you stan' it, an' afore long it will do you a power o' good." Harry refused to wince while the mountaineer kneaded his bruised chest with the liquid ointment.

The burning presently gave way to a soothing sensation.
Harry noticed that neither Jarvis nor Ike asked him the name of his opponent nor anything at all about the struggle or its cause.

They treated it as his own private affair, of which he could speak or not as he chose.