Now, it 's true I 'd rather have you do this business up quietly; but if you refuse, don't forget there are other means fully as effective, and a damn sight quicker." He reached out suddenly, grasping her hand.

"Did you ever hear the adage, 'Dead men tell no tales' ?" he questioned savagely.
She drew her hand sharply back from its instant of imprisonment, with a smothered cry, her eyes filled with undisguised horror.
"You threaten--you threaten murder ?" "Oh, we never use that word out in this country--it is considered far too coarse, my dear," and Farnham's thin lips curled sardonically.

"We merely 'silence' our enemies in Colorado.

It is an extremely simple matter; nothing at all disagreeable or boorish about it, I can assure you.

A stick of dynamite dropped quietly down a shaft-hole, or pushed beneath a bunk house--that's all.