I hadn't time to think of throwin' a gun before he whaled into me.

He knocked out two of my teeth.

An' I swallered one of them." Ellen stood in the background behind three of the men and in the shadow.

She did not join in the laugh that followed Bruce's remarks.
She had known that he would lie.

Uncertain yet of her reaction to this, but more bitter and furious as he revealed his utter baseness, she waited for more to be said.
"Wal, I'll be doggoned," drawled Daggs.
"What do you make of this kind of fightin' ?" queried Jorth, "Darn if I know," replied Daggs in perplexity.