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Whistlin' Dan" he paused, as if to calculate how far he could safely exaggerate "Whistlin' Dan can stand with his back to the coins an' when they're thrown he drills four dollars easier than you did one an' he wouldn't waste three shots on one dollar. He ain't so extravagant!" The crowd laughed again at the excitement of Morgan, and Silent's mirth particularly was loud and long.
Silent's expression changed and he leaned a little closer. "It's the nineteenth. Train number 89. Savvy? Seven o'clock at Elkhead!" "How much? Same bunch of coin?" "Fifty thousand!" "That's ten more." "Yep. A new shipment rolled in with the old one. No objections?" Silent grinned. "Any other news, Lee?" "Shorty told you about Tex Calder?" "He did. Seen him around here?"
The rain continued, and a deep gloom seemed to settle over our army. Some who were in Silent's confidence suggested a return to our former lines, but Silent could not see how we could go back if not forward. "Just at this moment Sherlin came riding up, through rain and mud, and suggested that an advance was sure of success.
After the first blow, he was all over the chief. You know Silent's a bad man with his hands?" "I guess we all know that," said Jordan, with a significant smile. "Well," said Haines, "he was like a baby in the hands of Barry. I don't like to talk about it none of us do. It makes the flesh creep." There was a loud crackling among the underbrush several hundred yards away. It drew closer and louder.
One of the boys will tell you that we've heard some whistling near the camp this evening. Then I'll ask you to stay around for a while in case the whistling should sound again, do you see? Remember, never ask a question!" It was even more simple than Haines had hoped. Silent's men suspected nothing.
Even as the outlaw fell his revolver spoke and one of the men threw up his hands with a yell and pitched out of the open door. His companion still kept his post, pumping shots at the prone figure. Twice more the muzzle of Silent's gun jerked up and the second man crumpled on the floor of the car.
An impulse of frantic horror and shame and fear gave him redoubled strength for an instant. He tore himself clear and reeled back. Dan planted two smashes on Silent's snarling mouth. A glance showed the large man the mute, strained faces around the room. The laughing devil leaped again.
Over Jim Silent's guns he paused longer than over most of the rest, but finally he handed them back. The big man scowled. Dan looked back to him in gentle surprise. "You see," he explained quietly, "you got to handle a gun like a horse. If you don't treat it right it won't treat you right. That's all I know about it.
"On the night after this assault Gen. Meador, General Orden and several other Generals were at Gen. Silent's headquarters, discussing the contemplated movement to be commenced on the 29th. The President had also been down to see Silent, and agreed in every particular to his programme. Gen. Tom Anderson was also present, having been ordered to Sentinel Point for assignment to duty.
It grew so clear at last that he marked with some accuracy the direction from which it came. If this was Silent's camp, it must be strongly guarded, and he should approach the place more cautiously than he could possibly do on a horse. Accordingly he dismounted, threw the reins over the pony's head, and started on through the willows. The whistling became louder and louder.
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