Dan Anderson was pale now, and he put his hand to his shirt collar, as though it were too tight; but he sat gazing down the valley.
"That old fool, Bill Godfrey, is showin' them our sign," said he, in exasperation.

"That's a nice thing, ain't it, for Eastern Capital, or a woman, to see the first thing ?" It was Charlie Lee, a landscape artist of Heart's Desire, who subsequently turned his studio into a shop for sign-painting, who had prepared the grim blazonry on the canon wall to which Dan Anderson had made reference.

"Prepare to meet thy God!" was the sign that Charlie Lee had painted there.

It was the last thing he did on his way out of town.

That was the day after certain outlaws had killed a leading citizen.