"Then I suppose I've been voted a coward long ago," Reade nodded.
"No, by the Great Nugget, you're not a coward," retorted Ferrers.
"No man who has seen you in a tough place will ever set you down
for a coward."
"Yet I must be, if I don't tote a gun in a wild country," smiled
Reade.
"But to go back to the case of that good-for-nothing, Dolph Gage,"
Jim Ferrers resumed. "You advise me to forget that he shot at me?"
"Oh, no, I don't," Tom retorted quietly. "But you don't have to go
out and take your own revenge. There are laws in this state,
aren't there?"
"Of course."
"And officers to execute the laws"
"To be sure."
"Then why not go back to Dugout City, there to lay information
against Gage. That done, the sheriff's officers will have to
do the hunting. Having nothing personal against the officers,
Gage will very likely hold up his hands when the officers find
him, and then go back with them as peaceable as a lamb. Jim,
you want to be even with Gage for shooting your brother and for
trying to finish you.
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