He shrugged away his last thoughts.

"I drifted about for a while after the pardon came down from the governor.

People knew me, you see, and what they knew about me didn't please them.

Even today Jim Silent and Jim Silent's crew isn't forgotten.

Then don't look at me like that, Kate; no, I played straight all the time---then I ran into Buck and he and I had tried each other out, we had at least one thing in common"-- here he looked at Buck and they both flushed--"and we made a partnership of it.