"It ain't pullin' a gun on any one.

Why, lad, if you'll tell me you got a ghost of a chance, I'll bet every cent in my cash drawer on you agin that skunk! You've give me your word, Dan." Whistling Dan shrugged his shoulders.
"I've given you my word," he said, "an' I'll do it.

But I guess Dad Cumberland'll be mighty sore on me." A laugh rose from the crowd at Morgan's place, which they were nearing rapidly.

It was like a mocking comment on Dan's speech.

As they came closer they could see money changing hands in all directions.
"What'd you do to my hoss ?" asked Jim Silent, walking out to meet them.
"He hypnotized him," said Hal Purvis, and his lips twisted over yellow teeth into a grin of satisfaction.
"Git out of the saddle damn quick," growled Silent.