But Solomon was made uneasy by this report.
"My boy kin throw a bullet straight as a plumb line an' quick as lightnin'," he had said to Preston.

"It's as nat'ral fer him as drawin' his breath.

That ere chap may git bored 'fore he has time to pull.

I ain't much skeered." Jack was nervous, although not from fear.

His estimate of the value of human life had been increased by his affection for Margaret.