These preliminaries decided upon, they proceeded to put them into action.
No hard task was it to win the friendship of the most of those good-natured outlaws.

They were used to men of a better order than theirs coming to the hidden camps and sooner or later sinking to their lower level.

Besides, with them everything was easy come, easy go.

That was why life itself went on so carelessly and usually ended so cheaply.
There were men among them, however, that made Duane feel that terrible inexplicable wrath rise in his breast.

He could not bear to be near them.