Did you see him fire ?" "Yes, but it was so sudden I could not even cry out.

He was upon one knee, and his revolver waved like this as he tried to aim.

Dupont saw it, and jumped just as he pulled the trigger." "I thought so.

The poor devil got the wrong man." "Why?
Were those two enemies ?" "They had been partners, stealing and running cattle.

Dupont had cheated Hughes out of his share, and there was bad blood between them.
I ran across the fellow up on the Cimarron, waiting for Dupont to come back to his old range.