He had thick, clumsy-looking fingers, whose appearance belied their deftness.

Bill Watson had gone through the Quantrell raid in his time.

It was nothing to him when he was to be killed.

Such a man is careful in his shooting, because he is careless of being shot, having therefore a vast advantage over the desperado of two or three victims, who does not yet accept the fact that his own days are numbered.

The only trouble in regard to this new bad man from below was that his mental attitude on this point was much the same as that of Sheriff Bill Watson.