There was just about one chance in six that Johnny Jewel would be the man to go.
Yet it so happened that Johnny did go--though Tex had nothing to do with it, so far as Johnny could see.

For all his determination to stay and tolerate his companions, noon found him packed and out by the gate that opened on the stage road, waiting to flag the stage and buy a ride to town.

He had accomplished, since breakfast, two fights and another quarrel with Mary V over that infernal jingle he had written.

And though Johnny could not see it, Tex had had something to do with them all.
Tex was not one of these diabolically cunning villains.

He did not consider himself any kind of a villain.