The word had filtered out that Sudden was dead — and there was noone around to contradict it. Men who had cringed before swaggerednow; others boasted of their encounters with Sudden the coward...Only one man stayed quiet. A tall saturnine fellow wearing two gunstied low. When he heard the rumours he gave a thin smile and whensomeone asked him who he was he said shortly—‘James Green’. James Green —alias Sudden!