reward."

"Colonel Macon, I have never worked for money before and I shall not
work for it now."

"You trouble me with interruptions. Who mentioned money? You shall not
have a penny!"

"No?"

"The reward shall grow out of the work."

"And the work?"

"Is fighting."

At this Donnegan narrowed his eyes and searched the fat man thoroughly.
It sounded like the talk of a charlatan, and yet there was a crispness
to these sentences that made him suspect something underneath. For that
matter, in certain districts his name and his career were known. He had
never dreamed that that reputation could have come within a thousand
miles of this part of the mountain desert.

"You should have told me in the first place," he said with some anger,
"that you knew me."

"Mr. Donnegan, upon my honor, I never heard your name before my daughter
uttered it."

Donnegan waited soberly.