“Talk fast then, old man, for life’s short, you know.”
“Oh, it’ll be short enough to you, when I tells what I knows agin’ you.”
“What do you know?”
“I knows that you was ther cause o’ havin’ two innocent men strung up in Hangman’s Gulch this night. I only wish I’d been at ther hangin’, for them wouldn’t hev been ther men thet got choked.”
“I am listening.”
“But me and my pard, Dave Dunn, got in too late ter save them poor murdered men, and when I heerd what had been done, says I, thet as Buffalo Bill will hev ter die ter-night, I’ll jist be his heir by winning his money fu’st. So I axes yer ter play me.”
“And I did?”
“Yaas, for sure.”
“And I became your heir, as you put it.”
“So far.”