Now tell us." "A whole day and a whole night," he said, "I been riding with the fear of him behind me.

Kate, I ain't myself, and if I been sayin' things----" "No matter.

Only tell me how you made him follow you." Buck Daniels swept his knuckles across his forehead, as though to rub out a horrible memory.
"Kate," he said in a voice which was hardly more than a whisper, "why did he follow Jim Silent ?" The doctor slipped into a chair opposite Buck Daniels and watched him with unbelieving eyes.

When he had last seen Buck the man had seemed an army in himself; but now a shivering, unmanned coward sat before him.
Byrne glanced at Kate Cumberland for explanation of the mysterious change.

She, also, was transformed with horror, and she stared at Buck Daniels as at one already among the dead.
"Buck, you didn't--_strike_ him ?" Buck Daniels nodded jerkily.
"I'll try to tell you straight from the beginning.