And that's what Dan Barry was to me.

So I stands sayin' these things to myself, and I says: 'If I keep that wall from fallin' Dan'll know about it, and they won't be no more of that yaller light in his eyes when he looks at me.

That's what I says to myself, poor fool! "And I went into the fire and I fought to keep that wall from fallin'.
You know what happened.

When I come out, staggerin' and blind and three parts dead, Dan Barry looks up to me and touches his face where I'd hit him, and the yaller comes up glimmerin' and blazin' in his eyes.

Then I went back to my room and I fought it out.
"And here's where I stand now.