It was unprovoked, and instead of stopping to face it out the yellow in him rose to the surface and he left before sunup, as I had left, making a clean getaway, too, for there was no such hullabaloo raised about killing a man as there was about--the other.

So my trip was all for nothing.
"I was used to disappointment by now, so I took it quiet and went back to Alluna and the little one, knowing that some day we two men would meet.

You see, I figured that God had framed a cold hand for me, but He would surely give me a pair before the game closed.

Of course, never having seen Bennett, I was handicapped, and, added to that, he changed his name, so the search was mighty slow and blind, but I knew the day would come.

And it would have come only for--this.
"There isn't much more to tell.