"Shore an' sartin it's not the way of a Texan.

Mebbe this young Isbel really is what old Gass swears he is.

Shore Bruce ain't nothin' to give an edge to a real gun fighter.

Looks to me like Isbel bluffed Greaves an' his gang an' licked your men without throwin' a gun." "Maybe Isbel doesn't want the name of drawin' first blood," suggested Jorth.
"That 'd be like Gass," spoke up Rock Wells, quietly.

"I onct rode fer Gass in Texas." "Say, Bruce," said Daggs, "was this heah palaverin' of yours an' Jean Isbel's aboot the old stock dispute?
Aboot his father's range an' water?
An' partickler aboot, sheep ?" "Wal--I--I yelled a heap," declared Bruce, haltingly, "but I don't recollect all I said--I was riled....