"
"I don't see how even Mr. Pelton, angry as he was, dared shoot him."
"He had been drinking hard for a week. That will explain anything when you
add it to his, temperament. I never liked the fellow."
"I suppose that is why you saved his life when the miners took him and were
going to lynch him?"
"I would not have lifted a hand for him. That's the bald truth. But I
couldn't let the boys spoil the moral effect of their victory by so gross a
mistake. It would have been playing right into Harley's hands."
"Can a man get over being drunk in five minutes? I never saw anybody more
sober than Mr. Pelton when the mob were crying for vengeance and you were
fighting them back."
"A great shock will sober a man. Pelton is an errant coward, and he had
pretty good reason to think he had come to the end of the passage. The boys
weren't playing. They meant business."
"They would not have listened to another man in the world except you," she
told him proudly.
"It was really Sam they listened to--when he sent out the message asking
them to let the law have its way.
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