"It's self-defence! If we don't do it, Johnny--if we don't draw on them first, what happened there forty years ago is goin' to happen again--with Joanne!" "A hundred yards," breathed Aldous, his jaws setting hard.

"And there are five!" "They'll go into the cabins," said MacDonald.

"At some time there will be two or three outside, an' we'll take them first.

At the sound of the shots the others will run out, and it will be easy.

Yo' can't very well miss a man at a hunderd yards, Johnny ?" "No, I won't miss." MacDonald rose.
"I'm goin' to take a little stroll, Johnny." For two hours after that Aldous was alone.