Belden was a dashing rider and an excellent shot.

An hour after our introduction he challenged me to a rifle match, which was at once arranged.
We were to shoot ten shots each at two hundred yards for fifty dollars a side.

Belden was to use a Henry rifle.

I was to shoot my old "Lucretia." This match I won.

Belden at once proposed another, a hundred-yard match, as I was shooting over his distance.