"Thanks for the compliment," Billy said humbly. "Suppose now you get plugged, Felix?"
"I won't get plugged. Not me," declared Craft, pulling the six-shooter with the brass trigger guard and making sure that the hammer rested on an empty chamber.
"What makes you think you won't be plugged?" persisted Billy.
Craft darted a quick look at his questioner. "Because I know I won't. I'll have the drop on 'em, don't you see? Nobody will dare cut down on me."
"How do you know they won't?"
"I'm sure, that's all."
"What makes you so sure?"
"Because I am, that's why!" was the snappish reply. Then in a pleasanter tone Craft continued, "Because, Bill, I've figured out my chances carefully. Not once in a thousand times do stage passengers resist a road agent."
"How about the Wells-Fargo guard?"
"He ain't riding this trip."