Since you have come into this room I have made my final plan, and I shall follow it to the end coolly and deliberately.

It will be a great game, Mac--and it will be a fair game; and I shall play it happily, because Joanne will not know, and I will be strengthened by her love.
"Quade wants my life, and tried to hire Stevens, up at Miette, to kill me.
Culver Rann wants my life; a little later it will come to be the greatest desire of his existence to have me dead and out of the way.

I shall give him the chance to do the killing, Mac.

I shall give him a splendid chance, and he will not fail to accept his opportunity.

Perhaps he will have an advantage, but I am as absolutely certain of killing him as I am that the sun is going down behind the mountains out there.