conscious that his habitual bashfulness in the presence of members of her sex was somehow lacking. "Why, I don't see nothin' extra dead about it," he replied. "Most of these towns are this way in daylight. Th' moths ain't out yet. You should 'a' been here last night!"
"Yes? But you 're out; an' you look like you might be able to fly," she replied.
"Yes; I suppose so," he laughed.
"I see you wear two of 'em," she said, glancing at his guns. "Ain't one of them things enough?"
"One usually is, mostly," he assented. "But I 'm pig-headed, so I wears two."
"Ain't it awrful hard to use two of 'em at once?" she asked, her tone flattering. "Then you 're one of them two-gun men I 've heard about, ain't you?"
"An' seen?" he smiled.
"Yes, I 've seen a couple. Where you goin' so early?"
"Just lookin' th' town over," he answered, glancing over her shoulder at a cub of a cowpuncher
