Yet fury had mitigated his terror.
"You'll be doin' me a service, Buster....

But you're mighty slow at startin'.

I reckon I'll have to play my last trump to make you fight.
Oh, by God! I can tell you!...

Belllounds, there're dead men callin' me now.

Callin' me not to murder you in cold blood! I killed one man once--a man who wouldn't fight--an innocent man! I killed him with my bare hands, an' if I tell you my story--an' how I killed him--an' that I'll do the same for you....