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"I don't understand you. You risk your neck to save my life, now you'll risk it again to send me to prison."
Scallen looked at Kidd and suddenly felt closer to him than any man he knew. "Don't ask me, Jim," he said and sat down again.

"A Mimbreño Apache is not a fanatic. He will not throw his life away. If mortally wounded, the chances are he will put aside precaution to make his last act that of killing a white man. Many white men will do the same. It is not fanaticism; it is complete resignation. Fatalism with fate staring you in the face."