"Ha! ha! Lucky for you you didn't do that; you would have been a dead man the same instant."
"And you would have been just as dead, for I seldom miss my mark when I take a bead on a man."
"Then why didn't you shoot me? Come, now, why didn't you?"
"Because I knew it would cost the lives of the others in the car, who hadn't the nerve to follow where I led, on the first occasion. It would have been much easier to have shot you than it was to take those two fellows who already had the drop on the car."
"Well, that cuts no ice with me, since you didn't spare me for any love you have for me. There is really no reason why I should spare you, that I can see."
"Nor I."
"Then what are you kicking about?"
"All I am asking is a fair chance. When I put on these handcuffs I had your word that I would get that."
"And I have given it and you have refused it. I can do nothing more than that. It has been war to the knife between us, as you expressed it, and I have won the fight. I would be a fool to give up the advantage gained."
"Just as you have a mind to look at it."