The old cowpuncher, he of the Custer story, came and stood by Bill Jordan.
It being evident that it would take a fight to get Dorgan, Walt Lampson stepped back and Mart Cooley took his place.
"Mart's a bad hombre, boss," Bill Jordan whispered to Mr.Sherwood.

"You ain't got no call t' get killed.

You better get out o' this." "Are you going to get out, Bill ?" Mr.Sherwood asked, and Bill grinned.
As this Western bad man and this Eastern business man faced each other, they represented not only violence against law, but something else--the old order against the new: the old order that survives only on the printed page and in the memory of man.
"Better give in," Walt Lampson shouted from the crowd.

"That skunk Dorgan ain't worth sheddin' blood for." "The law is," Mr.Sherwood replied determinedly.
His courage seemed to make an impression on the mutineers, as moral courage usually does, but not on Mart Cooley, who was regarding Mr.
Sherwood coldly.

Mart did not reach for a gun.