Of course, that put him on the hike again." "How do you mean ?" "Well, he had a record as long as a sick man's drug bill before he went into that country, and when he put the commissioner away them Canadian officials went after him like they was killin' snakes, and it cost him all he had made to get clear.

If it had happened across the line, the coroner's jury would have freed him, 'cause the commissioner was drunk and started the row; but it happened right in Stark's saloon, and you know Canucks is stronger than vitriol for law and order.

Not bein' his first offence, it went hard with him." "He looks like a killer," said Burrell.
"Yes, but he ain't the common kind.

He always lets the other man begin, and therefore he ain't never done time." "Come, now," argued the Lieutenant, "if it were the other man who invariably shot first, Stark would have been killed long ago." "I don't care what WOULD have happened, it 'AIN'T happened, and he's got notches on his gun till it looks like a cub bear had chawed it.

If you was a Western man you'd know what they say about him." "'The bullet 'ain't been run to kill him.' That's the sayin'.