Sit still, Langholm! I am getting the cart before the horse.

I was not so guilty as you think.

They may hang me if they like, but it was as much his act as mine.
"He stood with his back to me, fiddling with the revolvers for a good five minutes, during which time I heard him tear his handkerchief in two, and wondered what in the world he was going to do next.

What he did was to turn round and go on fiddling with the pistols behind his back.
Then he held out one in each hand by the barrel, telling me to take my choice, that he didn't know which was which himself, but only one of them was loaded.

And he had lapped the two halves of his handkerchief round the chambers of each in such a way that neither of us could tell when we were going to fire.
"Then he tossed for first shot, and made me call, and I won.