If I ever get back to civilization I'll brand this inhuman coldness of yours, as the most infamous and dastardly cowardice that ever disgraced a white man.

You are worse than Girty!" Williamson turned a sickly yellow; he fumbled a second with the handle of his tomahawk, but made no answer.

The other bordermen maintained the same careless composure.

What to them was the raving of a mad preacher?
Jim saw it and turned baffled, fiercely angry, and hopeless.

As he walked away Jeff Lynn took his arm, and after they were clear of the crowd of frontiersmen he said: "Young feller, you give him pepper, an' no mistake.