"How d'you know?" asked Jack, "I ain't ever seen him packin' a
six-gun."

"Sure you ain't," answered Morgan, "but I have, an' I seen him use it,
too. It was jest sort of by chance I saw it."

"Well," argued Mike anxiously, "then you allow it's possible if
Whistlin' Dan can do it. An' I say I seen a chap who could turn the
trick."

"An' who in hell is this Whistlin' Dan?" asked Jim Silent.

"He's the man that caught Satan, an' rode him," answered a bystander.

"Some man if he can ride the devil," laughed Lee Haines.

"I mean the black mustang that ran wild around here for a couple of
years. Some people tell tales about him being a wonder with a gun. But
Morgan's the only one who claims to have seen him work."

"Maybe you did see it, and maybe you didn't," Morgan was saying to
Mike noncommittally, "but there's some pretty fair shots in this
room, which I'd lay fifty bucks no man here could hit a dollar with a
six-gun at twenty paces."

"While they're arguin'," said Bill Kilduff, "I reckon I'll hit the
trail."

"Wait a minute," grinned Jim Silent, "an' watch me have some fun with