Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than any other people--whereas you're just AS brave, and no braver.

Why don't your juries hang murderers?
Because they're afraid the man's friends will shoot them in the back, in the dark--and it's just what they WOULD do.
"So they always acquit; and then a MAN goes in the night, with a hundred masked cowards at his back and lynches the rascal.

Your mistake is, that you didn't bring a man with you; that's one mistake, and the other is that you didn't come in the dark and fetch your masks.

You brought PART of a man--Buck Harkness, there--and if you hadn't had him to start you, you'd a taken it out in blowing.
"You didn't want to come.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.
YOU don't like trouble and danger.