I said to the captain, “Perhaps you are wondering who I am.” “Yes, I was wondering that,” said he. “I thought you were a walking hat.” “My name is Mattie Ross,” said I. “The man with the black mark goes by the name of Tom Chaney. He shot my father to death in Fort Smith and robbed him. Chaney was drunk and my father was not armed at the time.”
Mattie has a great, short elevator-speech kind of message ready for everyone she might need to deliver it to.
