But honor required that some notice should be taken of that other duel.

Mr.Cutler had come up from Carson City, and had sent a man over with a challenge from the hotel.

Steve went over to pacify him.

Steve weighed only ninety-five pounds, but it was well known throughout the territory that with his fists he could whip anybody that walked on two legs, let his weight and science be what they might.

Steve was a Gillis, and when a Gillis confronted a man and had a proposition to make, the proposition always contained business.