He was almost sorry that he had come.
Mason, when Ford confronted him later at the corral and bluntly stated his view of the matter, heard him through without a word, and did not laugh the issue out of the way, as he had been inclined to do before.
"I'll be all right for a month, maybe," Ford finished, "and that's as long as I can bank on myself.

I tell you straight, Ches, it won't work.
You may think you're hiring the same fellow that came out of the North with you--but you aren't.

Why, damn it, there ain't a man I know that wouldn't give you the laugh if they knew the offer you've made me! They would, that's a fact.

They'd laugh at you.

You're all right, Ches, but I won't stand for a deal like that.