A long time ago someone gave Cassidy what they call an assignment, and in that assignment it says 'go get Jolly Roger McKay, dead or alive'-- or something to that effect.

And Cassidy has been on the job ever since.
But he can't quite catch up with me, Pied-Bot.

I'm always a little ahead." And yet, even as he laughed, there was in Jolly Roger's heart a yearning to which he had never given voice.

Half a dozen times he might have killed Cassidy, and an equal number of times Cassidy might have killed him.

But neither had taken advantage of the opportunity to destroy.
They had played the long and thrilling game like men, and because of the fairness and sportsmanship of the man who hunted him Jolly Roger thought of Cassidy as he might have thought of a brother, and more than once he yearned to go to him, and hold out his hand in friendship.