I don't believe if I had shot as straight as I wanted to that I'd ever have felt a moment's compunction.

But now, when they're disarmed and shackled and altogether helpless, I couldn't walk up to them deliberately and kill them could you?
"It could be done, and done easily.

You have Lauman where he can't do anything, and I'm not of much account in a fight; so you've really only one deputy sheriff and two women to get the best of.

You could drag these men out and hang them in the cottonwoods, and they couldn't raise a hand to defend themselves.

We could do it easily--but when it was done and the excitement had passed I'd have a picture in my memory that I'd hate to look at.