The fight was all out of him and he was kind of dazed and sick.

Abe stood up like a giant and his face looked awful solemn.
"'Boys, if there's any more o' you that want trouble you can have some off the same piece,' he said.
"They hung their heads and not one of them made a move or said a word.
Abe went to Armstrong and helped him up.
"'Jack, I'm sorry that I had to hurt you.' be said.

'You get on to your horse and go home.' "'Abe, you're a better man than me,' said the bully, as he offer'd his hand to Abe.

'I'll do anything you say.'" * * * * * So the Clary's Grove gang was conquered.

They were to make more trouble but not again were they to imperil the foundations of law and order in the little community of New Salem.