43/68 "Seein' that you an' Lee Jorth hate each other, why couldn't you act like men? You damned Texans, with your bloody feuds, draggin' in every relation, every friend to murder each other! That's not the way of Arizona men.... We've all got to suffer--an' we women be ruined for life--because YOU had differences with Jorth. If you were half a man you'd go out an' kill him yourself, an' not leave a lot of widows an' orphaned children!" Jean himself writhed under the lash of her scorn. Gaston Isbel turned a dead white. |