"What do you think he says to me? 'You go home to your ma, young man!'
"That's what he said.
"'I ain't a baby,' says I to Jack Hollis. 'I'm a grown man. I'm ready to
fight your way.'
"'Any fool can fight,' says Jack Hollis. 'But a gent with any sense don't
have to fight. You can lay to that, son!'
"'Don't call me son,' says I. 'I'm older than you was when you started
out.'
"I'd had my heart busted before I started,' says Jack Hollis to me. 'Are
you as old as that, son? You go back home and don't bother me no more.
I'll come back in five years and see if you're still in the same mind!'
"And that was what I seen of Jack Hollis.
"I went back into town--Garrison City. I slept over the stables the rest
of that night. The next day I loafed around town not hardly noways
knowing what I was going to do.
"Then I was loafing around with my rifle, like I was going out on a
hunting trip that afternoon. And pretty soon I heard a lot of noise
coming down the street, guns and what not. I look out the window and
there comes Jack Hollis, hellbent! Jack Hollis! And then it pops into my
head that they was a big price, for them days, on Jack's head.
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