I didn't talk loud, because I never was one to make a disturbance and start trouble the way SOME do;and right while I was talkin' we both see my husband pass the window.Mr.Cory give a kind of yelling laugh and put his arm round me jest as Mr.
Fear come in the door.And then it all happened so quick that you could hardly tell what WAS goin'
on.Mr.Fear, we found afterwards, had promised Mr.Louden that he wouldn't come out there, but he took too much--you could see that by the look of him--and fergot his promise; fergot everything but me and Cory, I guess.
"He come right up to us, where I was tryin' to git away from Cory's arm--it was the left one he had around me, and the other behind his back--and neither of 'em said a word.Cory kept on laughin'
loud as he could, and Mr.Fear struck him in the mouth.He's little, but he can hit awful hard, and Mr.Cory let out a screech, and I see his gun go off--right in Mr.Fear's face, I thought, but it wasn't; it only scorched him.Most of the other gen'lemen had run, but Mike made a dive and managed to knock the gun to one side, jest barely in time.
Then Mike and three or four others that come out from behind things separated 'em--both of 'em fightin' to git at each other.They locked Mr.Cory up in Mike's room, and took Mr.Fear over to where they hitch the horses.Then Mike sent fer Mr.