[The Valley of Silent Men by James Oliver Curwood]@TWC D-Link bookThe Valley of Silent Men CHAPTER VII 21/30
Later he sent word he had run across it.
I returned and found him dead." The little missioner nodded, but did not speak. "It is embarrassing," Kent went on.
"It almost seems as though I ought to go through with it, like a sport.
When a man loses, it isn't good taste to set up a howl.
It makes him sort of yellow-backed, you know. To play the game according to rules, I suppose I ought to keep quiet and allow myself to be hung without making any disturbance.
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