But they was something different about Dan Barry.

D'you ever notice it, Kate ?" She was far past speech.
"No, I guess you never would have noticed it.

You was livin' too close to him all the time to see how different he was from other fellers.
Anyway, he done it.

They say he got plugged while he was ridin' through the lines and he bled all the way home, and he got there unconscious.

Is that right, Kate ?" He waited an instant and then accepted the silence as an affirmative.
"Funny thing about that, too.