Miller is lyin' quiet in the woods, and violets have blossomed twice over his grave, though you never said a word; but I know it's true because I know you." Zane looked eagerly into the dark face of his friend, hoping perhaps to get some verbal assurance there that his belief was true.

But Wetzel did not speak, and he continued: "Another day not so long ago we both looked down at an old friend, and saw his white hair matted with blood.

He'd been murdered for nothin'.

Again you and me trailed a coward and found him to be Jim Girty.

I knew you'd been huntin' him for years, and so I says, 'Lew, you or me ?' and you says, 'Me.' I give in to you, for I knew you're a better man than me, and because I wanted you to have the satisfaction.