But this conduct can no longer be endured.

If it is continued, I shall be under the necessity of shooting you." There was almost a magic power in Kit Carson's calmness.

He had a piercing eye, before whose glance many would quail.

There was an indescribable something in his soft words, which indicated that they came from a lion-like heart.

The whole company of trappers looked on in perfect silence, curious to see what would be the result of this bold movement.
Shunan at first, the herculean bully, looked down upon his fragile opponent, with much of the contempt with which Goliath contemplated David.
But apparently that glance showed him that he had encountered no ordinary foe.