"I realize that," agreed Roger. "But Garman had made up his mind that we weren't going to have that canoe."
"I had almost made up my mind we were going to have it."
"I saw that; that's why I stopped you."
"Well! After what happened on the river boat I didn't expect you to stop so easy."
"Those men on the boat were quite different from Garman. I knew they would take a bluff, or I'd never have let you pull your gun. If you had done the same here there would have been shooting or else you'd have had to put your gun away and back down. It's one thing to pull a gun on a bunch of river rats, and another on a man like Garman. I don't want any shooting round here."
"Neither do I."
"Then never make a gun move with Garman round. You can't beat a man like him with a gun."
"No, I'll say he's a real he-devil."
"I'm here on a business proposition. It's a question of brains, not guns, in a fight with Garman."
"And he's got a few of them too."