Warlock - pg. 30

5. Gannon Sees a Showdown
STANDING beside his brother at the bar of the Glass Slipper, John Gannon looked from one to another around him - at Pony Benner's mean, twisted little face; at Luke Friendly, who could, at least be dismissed as a blowhard and braggart; at the sour, cruel, dark features of Jack Cade, whom he had always feared; at Calhoun, with whom he had learned to be merely careful, as with a rattlesnake out of striking distance; at Curley Burne, who, with Wash Haggin, had been his friend, whose droll, easy manner of speech he had once tried to copy, and whose easy gait he had seen that Billy was copying now. He looked at Abe McQuown's keen, cold- red-bearded face. Once, when he had been Billy's age, he had admired Abe more than he ever had any other man.