Well, I got even, and stuck up a mail-sledge myself--but I guess there was a good reason for it.

I've done a lot of things since then, but I've done it all with my naked fists, and I've never put a bullet or a knife into a man except Roach the Free Trader.

And the funniest thing of the whole business, Pied-Bot, is this--I didn't kill Jed Hawkins.

Some day mebby I'll tell you about what happened on the trail, the thing which you and Nada didn't see.

But now--" For a moment he stood very still, and Peter sensed the sudden thrill that was going through the man as he stood there in darkness.