"Nothin," said Haines. "She fainted, eh? Well, good!"
"Yep. She fainted an' when she come to, she told Cumberland that Dan
was in the saloon, an' probably too weak to get out of the fire. They
started for the place on the run. When they got there all they found
was a pile of red hot coals. So everyone figures that he went up in
the flames. That's all I know. Now what about the fight?"
Lee Haines sat with fixed eyes.
"There isn't much to say about the fight," he said at last.
"The hell there isn't," scoffed Terry Jordan. "From what I heard, this
Whistling Dan simply cut loose and raised the devil more general than
a dozen mavericks corralled with a bunch of yearlings."
"Cutting loose is right," said Haines. "It wasn't a pleasant thing to
watch. One moment he was about as dangerous as an eighteen-year-old
girl. The next second he was like a panther that's tasted blood.
That's all there was to it, Terry. 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.
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