"You won't fight?" said the officer. "Well, then, will you stop hunting me?"
"Capm, I'll go that much."
"Will you pledge yourself not to harm any one in this party, man or woman?"
"I'll go that much, too."
"I don't want to get any tales out of you. You can keep your secrets. Damn your secrets!"
"Capm, you're jest the whitest man I ever see."
"Will you pledge yourself to keep dark about this talk that we've had?"
"You bet!" replied Texas Smith, with an indescribable air of humiliation. "I'm outbragged. I shan't tell of it."
"I shall give orders to my men. If anything queer happens, you won't live the day out."
"The keerds is stocked agin me, Capm. I pass. You kin play it alone."