"Well, we rode up on the blind side of the house--from the north, see, got off, and sneaked around to the east end of the shack.

The windows was covered with cloths on the inside, which didn't make me none too sure about Shaw havin' no dealin's with crooks.

It ain't ordinary for a feller to be so savin' on light.
Pretty soon we found a tear in one of the cloths, and lookin' through that we seen old Piotto sittin' beside Tom Shaw with his daughter on the other side.
"We went back to the north side of the house and figured out different ways of tacklin' the job.

There was only the two of us, see, and the fellers inside that house was all cut out for man-killers.

How would you have gone after 'em, son ?" "Opened the door, I suppose, and started shooting," said Bard, "if I had the courage." The other stared at him.
"You heard this story before ?" "Not this part." "Well, that was jest what we done.