So he outs with his gun and shoots Armstrong.

And the worst part of it was that Armstrong didn't have no gun on at the time.

The sheriff found Armstrong's gun hanging on the wall along with his cartridge belt.

Yep, it was plain murder, and Pete Reeve'll hang as high as the sky--and a good thing, too!" This story was a shock to Bull for a reason that would not have affected most men.

That a man who had had the courage to stand up and face Uncle Bill in a fair duel should have been so cowardly, so venomous as to take a mean advantage of a gambling companion seemed to Bull altogether too strange to be reasonable.